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Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular responses to lower body negative pressure in type 2 diabetic patients.

Abstract
In diabetic patients, vascular disease and autonomic dysfunction might compromise cerebral autoregulation and contribute to orthostatic intolerance. The aim of our study was to determine whether impaired cerebral autoregulation contributes to orthostatic intolerance during lower body negative pressure in diabetic patients. Thirteen patients with early-stage type 2 diabetes were studied. We continuously recorded RR-interval, mean blood pressure and mean middle cerebral artery blood flow velocity at rest and during lower body negative pressure applied at -20 and -40 mm Hg. Spectral powers of RR-interval, blood pressure and cerebral blood flow velocity were analyzed in the sympathetically mediated low (LF: 0.04-0.15 Hz) and the high (HF: 0.15-0.5 Hz) frequency ranges. Cerebral autoregulation was assessed from the transfer function gain and phase shift between LF oscillations of blood pressure and cerebral blood flow velocity. In the diabetic patients, lower body negative pressure decreased the RR-interval, i.e. increased heart rate, while blood pressure and cerebral blood flow velocity decreased. Transfer function gain and phase shift remained stable. Lower body negative pressure did not induce the normal increase in sympathetically mediated LF-powers of blood pressure and cerebral blood flow velocity in our patients indicating sympathetic dysfunction. The stable phase shift, however, suggests intact cerebral autoregulation. The dying back pathology in diabetic neuropathy may explain an earlier and greater impairment of peripheral vasomotor than cerebrovascular control, thus maintaining cerebral blood flow constant and protecting patients from symptoms of presyncope.
AuthorsHarald Marthol, Udo Zikeli, Clive Martin Brown, Marcin Tutaj, Max Josef Hilz
JournalJournal of the neurological sciences (J Neurol Sci) Vol. 252 Issue 2 Pg. 99-105 (Jan 31 2007) ISSN: 0022-510X [Print] Netherlands
PMID17173934 (Publication Type: Journal Article)
Topics
  • Autonomic Nervous System Diseases (physiopathology)
  • Blood Pressure (physiology)
  • Cerebrovascular Circulation (physiology)
  • Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 (physiopathology)
  • Female
  • Heart Rate (physiology)
  • Homeostasis (physiology)
  • Humans
  • Lower Body Negative Pressure
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Middle Cerebral Artery (physiology)

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