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. 2019 Jul 19;181(3):363–374. doi: 10.1530/EJE-19-0291

Table 4.

Summary of results.

Characteristic All cases (n = 91)
Age, years
 Median (range) 61 (22–84)
Gender
 Female/male 36 vs 55
Ethnicity
 Asian 14/91 (15%)
Tumor types
 Melanoma 48/91 (53%)
 NSCLC 14/91 (15%)
Past medical history* 20/91 (22%)
Prior immunotherapy 22/91 (24%)
 IL-2 2/91
 Interferon 7/91
 Ipilimumab 16/91
 Nivolumab 3/91
Immune checkpoint inhibitor
 Anti-CTLA-4 3/91 (3%)
 Anti-PD-1 65/91 (71%)
 Anti-PD-L1 7/91 (8%)
 Anti-CTLA-4 + anti-PD-1 14/91 (15%)
 Anti-PD-L1 + 4-1BB blockade 1/91
 CTLA-4 or PD-1 blockade 1/91
Time-to-diagnosis in cycles (range) 4.5 (1–17)
 Combination therapy 2.7 (1–5)
 With/without DKA 4 vs 5.9
 GADA pos./GADA neg. 3.1 vs 5.9
Diabetic ketoacidosis 64/91 (71%)
Glycemia, median (range) 565 mg/dL (209–1211)
Glycated hemoglobin, median (range) 7.6% (5.4–11.4)
Low-C-peptide at diagnosis 58/69 (84%)
Elevated lipase 13/25 (52%)
Positive pancreas autoantibodies
 At least one 47/88 (53%)
 Two or more 13/88 (15%)
Type of pancreas autoantibodies
 GADA 51%
 IA-2 18%
 ICA 13%
 Anti-insulin 26%
 ZnT8 4%
HLA analysis 51/91 (56%)
 Susceptible 31/51 (61%)
 Susceptible and protective 2/51 (4%)
 Neutral 10/51 (20%)
 Protective 8/51 (16%)
Thyroid dysfunction with ICI 21/91 (24%)
 Prior history of thyroid dysfunction 2/21

*Diabetes mellitus, thyroid disease or risk thereof.

4-1BB, CD137; CTLA-4, cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen 4; DKA, diabetes ketoacidosis; GADA, glutamic acid decarboxylase; HLA, human leukocyte antigen; IA-2, insulinoma-associated antigen-2; ICA, islet-cell antibodies; ICI, immune checkpoint inhibitor; IL-2, Interleukin-2; NSCLC, non-small cell lung cancer; PD-1, programmed cell death protein 1; PD-L1, programmed death-ligand 1; ZnT8, zinc transporter 8.