Função autonômica e reatividade vascular em indivíduos com parentesco de diabetes tipo 2 e em portadores do polimorfismo 894G>T da óxido nítrico sintase endotelial

• Autor(a) principal: Neves, Fabricia Junqueira das
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/12672
• topic: Autonomic nervous system; Vascular reactivity; Type 2 diabetes family history; Polymorphism; Endothelial nitric oxide syntase; Sistema nervoso autônomo; Reatividade vascular; História familiar de diabetes tipo 2; Polimorfismo; Óxido nítrico sintase endotelial; CNPQ::CIENCIAS BIOLOGICAS::FISIOLOGIA::FISIOLOGIA DE ORGAOS E SISTEMAS::FISIOLOGIA CARDIOVASCULAR

Cardiovascular diseases are among the leading causes of mortality in many countries. The autonomic nervous system and the endothelial function are central mechanisms in the development and progression of cardiovascular diseases. The autonomic function and vascular reactivity may be altered in subjects with higher risk for cardiovascular disease, as subjects with family history of first-degree relatives of type 2 diabetes (FDRs), and subjects with the 894G>T polymorphism of the endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS). The aims of these three papers presented at this thesis were: paper I. To investigate the influence of FDR on cardiac autonomic modulation in the absence of concomitant metabolic disorders; paper II. To investigate the influence of FDR on vascular reactivity in the absence of concomitant metabolic disorders; paper III. To investigate the influence of the 894G>T polymorphism on the effect of a single bout of maximal dynamic exercise on vascular reactivity. Healthy subjects with and without FDRs were recruited for the paper I and II. The heart rate variability (HRV) was determined by spectral analysis of inter-beat intervals recorded during 10 min in the supine position (paper I) and vascular reactivity during the reactive hyperemia by venous occlusion plethysmography (paper II). For the paper III, healthy subjects with and without the 894G>T polymorphism of the eNOS were recruited. The protocol consisted of vascular reactivity assessment at baseline and during reactive hyperemia, which were performed pre, 10, 60 and 120 min after a maximal cardiopulmonary exercise test. The FDR s exhibited higher values for anthropometric and metabolic variables and lower values for HRV (paper I), and vascular reactivity (paper II) when compared to the control subjects (p<0.05). After matching the groups for variables, that are known to alter HRV and vascular reactivity, no significant difference was observed between groups in the paper I and II (p>0.05). Following single correlation analysis, only the variables with statistical significance were submitted to multiple regression analysis. This identified cholesterol (P=0.014) and triglycerides (P=0.014) as significant predictors of HRV (model r2=0.16; p<0.001), and insulin (P<0.05) and waist-to-hip ratio (P<0.05) as independent predictors (model r2=0.22; P=0.006). There were no differences between the subjects with and without the 894G>T polymorphism concerning anthropometric, metabolic, and hemodynamic characteristics, and blood flow measurements before maximal dynamic exercise (P>0.05), in the paper III. The polymorphic subjects presented lower vascular reactivity regardless of time (P=0.019 for group main effect), and post-hoc analysis revealed that polymorphic subjects had lower values only at the 120 min measurement (P=0.022) when compared with subjects without the polymorphism. These findings suggest that FDRs, in the absence of concomitant metabolic disorders, does not impair cardiac autonomic modulation and vascular reactivity. Furthermore, subjects with the 894G>T polymorphism had lower vascular reactivity after a single bout of exercise, denoting the presence of vascular dysfunction.