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Diabetes, Vol 48, Issue 9 1856-1862, Copyright © 1999 by American Diabetes Association
Microvascular and macrovascular reactivity is reduced in subjects at risk for type 2 diabetes
AE Caballero, S Arora, R Saouaf, SC Lim, P Smakowski, JY Park, GL King, FW LoGerfo, ES Horton and A Veves
Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.
Abnormalities in vascular reactivity in the micro- and macrocirculation are
well established in type 2 diabetes. However, little is known about changes
in vascular reactivity in those at risk for developing type 2 diabetes. To
address this situation, the vascular reactivity in both the micro- and
macrocirculation was studied in four age and sex comparable groups: 30
healthy normoglycemic subjects with no history of type 2 diabetes in a
first-degree relative (controls), 39 healthy normoglycemic subjects with a
history of type 2 diabetes in one or both parents (relatives), 32 subjects
with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), and 42 patients with type 2 diabetes
without vascular complications (diabetes). Laser Doppler perfusion imaging
was used to measure vasodilation in the forearm skin in response to
iontophoresis of 1% acetylcholine chloride (Ach) (endothelium-dependent)
and 1% sodium nitroprusside (SNP) (endothelium-independent), whereas
high-resolution ultrasound images were used to measure brachial artery
diameter changes during reactive hyperemia. Plasma concentrations of
endothelin-1 (ET-1), von Willebrand factor (vWF), soluble intercellular
adhesion molecule (sICAM), and soluble vascular cell adhesion molecule
(sVCAM) were also measured as indicators of endothelial cell activation.
The vasodilatory responses to Ach, expressed as percent increase of blood
flow over baseline, were reduced in relatives (98 +/- 48, mean +/- SD), IGT
(94 +/- 52), and diabetes (74 +/- 45) compared with controls (126 +/- 67)
(P < 0.001 controls versus relatives, IGT, and diabetes). The responses
to SNP were similarly reduced: controls (123 +/- 46), relatives (85 +/-
46), IGT (83 +/- 48), and diabetes (65 +/- 31) (P < 0.001 controls
versus relatives, IGT, and diabetes) as were the responses in the brachial
artery diameter during reactive hyperemia: controls (13.7 +/- 6.1),
relatives (10.5 +/- 6.7), IGT (9.8 +/- 4.5), and diabetes (8.4 +/- 5.0) (P
< 0.01 controls versus relatives, IGT, and diabetes). Women had greater
responses than men in both the micro- and macrovascular circulatory tests,
but a similar progressive reduction was observed in both sexes with
increasing degrees of glucose intolerance. A significant inverse
correlation was found between microvascular reactivity and systolic blood
pressure, fasting plasma glucose, HDL cholesterol, fasting plasma insulin,
and homeostasis model assessment (HOMA) values, an index of insulin
resistance. BMI and diastolic blood pressure had a significant inverse
correlation only with endothelium-dependent vasodilation. In the
macrocirculation, systolic blood pressure, HbA1c, HDL cholesterol, and HOMA
had significant correlation with brachial artery diameter changes. Compared
with control subjects, ET-1 was significantly higher in all groups, vWF was
higher only in the diabetic group, sICAM levels were higher in the IGT and
diabetic groups, while sVCAM concentrations were higher in the relatives
and those with diabetes (P < 0.05). On stepwise multivariate analysis,
age, sex, fasting plasma glucose, and BMI were the most important
contributing factors to the variation of vascular reactivity. Addition of
all clinical and biochemical measures explained only 32-37% of the
variation in vascular reactivity. These results suggest that abnormalities
in vascular reactivity and biochemical markers of endothelial cell
activation are present early in individuals at risk of developing type 2
diabetes, even at a stage when normal glucose tolerance exists, and that
factors in addition to insulin resistance may be operative.

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December 12, 2003;
93(12):
1159 - 1169.
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