Influence of autonomic neuropathy upon left ventricular dysfunction in insulin-dependent diabetic patients

• Autor(a) principal: Monteagudo, Patrícia Teófilo [UNIFESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2000
• Outros Autores: Moisés, Valdir Ambrósio [UNIFESP], Kohlmann Junior, Osvaldo [UNIFESP], Ribeiro, Artur Beltrame [UNIFESP], Lima, Valter Correia de [UNIFESP], Zanella, Maria Teresa [UNIFESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIFESP
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.unifesp.br/11600/43351; http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/clc.4960230513
• topic: diabetic cardiomyopathy; autonomic neuropathy; left diastolic dysfunction; type-1 diabetes; insulin-dependent diabetes

Background: Diabetic cardiomyopathy is a well-defined complication of diabetes that occurs in the absence of ischemic, vascular, and hypertensive disease.Hypothesis: The study was undertaken to test the relationship among autonomic neuropathy (AN), 24-h blood pressure (BP) profile, and left ventricular function.Methods: Nineteen type-1 diabetic patients underwent autonomic tests and echocardiographic examination. Patients were divided according to the presence (AN+) or absence (AN-) of AN.Results: In the AN+ group (n = 8), the E/A ratio at echo was lower than in the AN- group (n = 11) (1.1 +/- 0.3 vs. 1.6 +/- 0.3; p < 0.005). Systolic and diastolic BP reductions during sleep were smaller in the AN+ than in the AN- group (6.6 +/- 6.6 vs. 13.0 +/- 4.3%; p < 0.03 for systolic and 12.8 +/- 6.8 vs. 20.0 +/- 4.0% for diastolic BP reduction; p < 0.03, respectively). Considering all patients, the EIA ratio correlated inversely with awake diastolic BP (r - 0.63; p = 0.005); sleep systolic BP (r - 0.48; p = 0.04), and sleep diastolic BP (r - 0.67; p = 0.002). The AN correlated with diastolic interventricular septum thickness (r 0.57; p = 0.01), sleep systolic BP (r 0.45; = 0.05), sleep diastolic BP (r 0.54; p = 0.02), and correlated inversely with systolic and diastolic sleep BP reduction (r - 0.49; p = 0.03 and r - 0.67; p = 0.002, respectively). Finally, E/A ratio and AN score correlated between themselves (r - 0.6; p = 0.005).Conclusion: Our results suggest that left ventricular diastolic dysfunction may be detected very early in type-1 diabetic patients with AN. Parasympathetic lesion and nocturnal elevations in BP could be the Link between AN and diastolic ventricular dysfunction.