ACE-I may be protective
beyond BP control in
diabetic patients
Från Diabetes Care
2000;23:882-883,888-892.
A meta-analysis of four trials, in which patients with
hypertension and type 2 diabetes were randomized to receive ACE inhibitors
or a different drug, shows that ACE inhibitors provide particular advantages
over and above control of blood pressure. Dr. Marco Pahor, of Wake Forest
University Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and
colleagues collected data on 470 subjects in The Appropriate Blood Pressure
Control in Diabetes trial, which compared enalapril with nisoldipine.
Also studied were 572 subjects in the Captopril Preven-tion
Project, which compared captopril with diuretics or beta-blockers; 380
patients in the Fosinopril Versus Amlodipine Cardiovascular Events Trial,
which compared fosinopril with amlodipine; and 758 subjects in the UK
Prospective Diabetes Study, which compared captopril with atenolol.
The results are published in the July issue of Diabetes Care. Dr. Pahor’s
team found that ”the cumulative results of the first three trials showed
a significant benefit of ACE inhibitors compared with alternative treatments
on the outcomes of acute myocardial infarction (63% reduction), cardiovascular
events (51% reduction) and all-cause mortality (62% reduction),” according
to the researchers.
These advantages were not found in the last trial, where
the ”question of whether atenolol is equivalent to captopril remains
open,” according to the report. Co-investigator Dr. Michael H. Alderman,
of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, told Reuters
Health that ACE inhibitors are as protective in the general population,
”but diabetics are at higher risk and so with the same relative benefit
you get a bigger bang for your buck.” Citing the Heart Outcomes Prevention
Evaluation (HOPE) study, Dr. Alderman said, ”There is evidence that
ACE inhibitors will be useful in all diabetics, not just hypertensives.”
In a related editorial Dr. Hertzel C. Gerstein,
of McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, writes, ”These data
support the recommended use of ACE inhibitors as first-line agents in
people with diabetes who are at a particularly high risk for cardiovascular
outcomes.” He adds, ”Furthermore, they suggest that ACE inhibitors should
be used as firstline anti-hypertensive agents in all people with diabetes.”
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Diabetes diagnosis prompts
smokers to quit
SAN ANTONIO, Jun 15 (Reuters Health)
- Being diagnosed with diabetes increases the likelihood that a smoker
will quit smoking, according to a researcher from the University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor. In an earlier study, Dr. Linda A. Wray and colleagues
reported that people with acute MI were seven times more likely to quit
smoking than people who had not had a heart attack.
”I would like to think that the public health information
that’s out there would be enough to prompt people to quit smoking before
they’re diagnosed with diabetes or a heart attack,” Dr. Wray told Reuters
Health. ”In fact it does for a lot of people, but there are some people
that clearly it takes something that serious before they do finally
quit smoking.”
As described in a poster presented here at the annual meeting of the
American Diabetes Association, she studied a group of 1,945 middle-aged
smokers who were part of the Health and Retirement Study and who were
smoking in 1992. Of this group, 345 quit smoking by 1996, and 33 were
diagnosed with type 2 diabetes by 1994. Even though this group was heavily
addicted to smoking, Dr. Wray found that the group diagnosed with diabetes
was still 2.4 times more likely to have quit smoking by 1996.
Socioeconomic status or ethnic background did not predict whether a
smoker would quit after a diabetes diagnosis. ”Because they are sort
of a special group of smokers, I think it also suggests that maybe a
’one-size fitsall’ kind of smoking cessation program doesn’t always
work,” she said. ”Sometimes you need more, you need different kinds
of techniques depending on who the target audience is.”
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Learning to cope has lasting benefits in young diabetics
Från J Pediatr
2000;137:107-113.
The success of intensive therapy regimens in young people with
diabetes mellitus appears to be increased by training in coping skills,
researchers report in the July issue of The Journal of Pediatrics. Dr.
Margaret Grey, of Yale University School of Nursing, New Haven, Connecticut,
and colleagues note that ”adolescence is a particularly difficult time
to achieve nearnormal blood glucose values.” To determine if enhanced
coping skills would be helpful in improving metabolic control, the researchers
randomly assigned 77 patients, ages 12 to 20 years, who were about to
begin intensive diabetes management, to intervention or control groups.
Intervention patients attended six training sessions in groups of two
or three and were followed up monthly.
Emphasis was placed on developing skills in areas
such as social problem solving, cognitive behavior modification and
conflict resolution. Clinical data were collected monthly and subjects
were assessed at 3, 6 and 12 months after the intervention by means
of a variety of scales covering psychological and other factors. Although
both groups were comparable at baseline, after 1 year, intervention
patients had lower glycosylated hemoglobin and achieved better diabetes
and medical selfefficacy scores. In addition, diabetes had less impact
on their quality of life. The intervention also decreased the incidence
of weight gain and hypoglycemia in females, but not in males. Given
these findings, the researchers conclude that ”the addition of behavioral
intervention to intensive diabetes management in adolescence results
in improved metabolic control and quality of life over 1 year.”
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Insulin glargine provides better
glucose control than NPH insulin
Från Diabetes Care
2000;23:1130-1142.
In patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes, single
daily injections of insulin glargine provide glucose control superior
to that afforded by once or twice-daily NPH insulin administration,
according to two reports in the August issue of Diabetes Care. Insulin
glargine is a recombinant human insulin analog designed to have a smooth,
peakless profile of action when injected subcutaneously, the authors
explain. Dr. Hannele Yki-Jarvinen, of the University of Helsinki, Finland,
and colleagues compared insulin glargine with NPH insulin in the treatment
of 426 patients with type 2 diabetes poorly controlled with oral hypoglycemic
drugs.
Insulin doses, C-peptide concentrations and hemoglobin
A1c levels did not differ between the two treatment groups, the authors
report. Diurnal glucose profiles differed significantly, however, with
insulin glarginetreated patients demonstrating lower blood glucose concentrations
both before and after dinner. Furthermore, 3:00 AM blood glucose levels
among patients achieving their fasting blood glucose targets were lower
with NPH insulin than with insulin glargine treatment. Significantly
more patients treated with NPH insulin experienced symptomatic hypoglycemia
than did insulin glargine treated patients, the investigators note.
”These data support use of insulin glargine instead of
NPH in insulin combination regimens in type 2 diabetes,” the authors
conclude. Dr. Julio Rosenstock and colleagues from Dallas Diabetes and
Endocrine Center, in Texas, conducted a similar study in 256 patients
with type 1 diabetes who were treated with multiple daily insulin regimens.
Insulin glargine lowered fasting plasma glucose (FPG) levels to a greater
extent than did NPH insulin (9.2 mmol/L versus 11.3 mmol/L, respectively),
the authors report.
According to the results, FPG levels improved in
insulin glargine-treated patients during the study, whereas levels improved
in NPH-treated patients only if they had used a once daily regi-men.
Like the patients with type 2 diabetes, type 1 diabetics treated with
insulin glargine had higher 3:00 AM glucose levels and fewer hypoglycemic
episodes than did NPH insulin treated patients, the investigators note.
Overall, insulin glarginetreated patients required six to seven fewer
units of insulin than did NPH insulin-treated patients. No meaningful
differences in adverse events between the two treatments were noted
in either study.
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Rökning och snus medför
risk för typ 2 diabetes
Från Medicallinks
nyhetsbrev 11/8 2000.
Kära läsare!
Att rökning är en viktig riskfaktor för hjärt/kärlsjukdom är
välkänt. Rökning ökar också risken för typ 2-diabetes. En svensk studie,
publicerad i augustinumret av Journal of Internal Medicine, visar att
rökning av 25 cigaretter eller mer per dag ökar risken 2.6 gånger.
Denna studie har under den gångna veckan funnits på Medical Links förstasida.
Om man hade diabetes i släkten sexdubblades risken! En japansk studie
visar att män som röker minst 31 cigaretter per dag fyrdubblar risken
för typ 2-diabetes. Gunilla Bolinder vid KS har visat att snusning ökar
risken för hjärt/kärlsjukdom mindre än rökning. Hon har också visat
att rökning, men inte snusning, ökade omfattningen av ateroskleros i
halskärlen mätt med ultraljud.
Den nu aktuella svenska studien visar att användande
av tre dosor snus eller mer per vecka ökar risken för typ 2-diabetes
2.7 gånger. Den bakomliggande mekanismen är oklar. Flera andra forskningsgrupper
har visat att nikotintillförsel i form av nikotintuggummin! eller snus
leder till ökad insulinresistens, en viktig hörnsten i uppkomst av typ
2-diabetes.
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Inhaled insulin as effective
as injections
Från Endocrine Society
Meeting USA summer 2000.
Results of a multicenter phase II study show that
insulin in a formulation that can be inhaled results in glycemic control
comparable to that achieved with conventional subcutaneous administration.
The findings were presented by Dr. William Cefalu, of the University
of Vermont, at the 82nd annual meeting of the Endocrine Society. He
also announced that recruitment has already begun for a large phase
III trial using inhaled insulin. A total of 70 patients with type 1
and type 2 diabetes at nine centers were randomized in an open label
study to use either the inhaled insulin before meals, with an insulin
injection at bedtime, or their usual subcutaneous injections or oral
hypoglycemic medication.
There was a 4-week lead-in period to the study, then a 12-week treatment
period. Both groups performed home glucose monitoring four times daily,
had weekly insulin dose adjustment, and had preprandial glucose targets
of 100 mg/dL to 160 mg/dL. The inhalation device comprises a clear plastic
cylinder about 10 inches tall, the base of which holds a container of
compressed air.
Insulin is kept in small, single dose sachets that are inserted into
the device, punctured, and then aerosolized by the compressed air. The
patient inhales once through a mouthpiece. Each sachet contains either
1 mg or 3 mg of drug, with the 1 mg sachet being comparable to a 3-unit
dose delivered by syringe, Dr. Cefalu said. It was found that the inhaled
insulin ”worked similarly well as subcutaneous injections,” he said.
It even proved to have an advantage when used in patients with type
2 diabetes who had been on oral agents only.
Från Medical Reuters.
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Hyperlipidemia treatment in
diabetics is cost-effective
Från Circulation 2000;102:722-727.
Treating hyperlipidemia in diabetics is just as effective
and cost effective as treating hyperlipidemia in persons without diabetes,
according to a report in the August 15th issue of Circulation: Journal
of the Ameri can Heart Association. Using the Cardiovascular Life Expectancy
Model, Dr. Steven A. Grover and colleagues from The Montreal General
Hospital, Quebec, Canada, developed simulations for men and women 40
to 70 years of age. These hypothetical diabetic subjects had pretreatment
LDL cholesterol levels of 5.46, 4.34 and 3.85 mmol/L.
The team used 1996 dollars to forecast the long-term costs of
cardiovascular events and the need for medical and surgical intervention
in this cohort. Comparing their model with data from the Scandinavian
Simvastatin Survival Study, Dr. Grover’s group found that ”treatment
with simvastatin for patients with cardiovascular disease is cost-effective
for men and women, with or without diabetes.”
In addition, they noted that ”among diabetic individuals
without cardiovascular disease, the benefits of primary prevention were
also substantial and the cost effectiveness ratios attractive across
a wide range of assumptions (approximately $4,000 to $40,000 per year
of life saved).”The findings were also ”robust even among diabetics
with lower baseline LDL values and smaller LDL reductions as observed
in the Cholesterol and Recruitment Events (CARE) trial.” Dr. Grover
and colleagues conclude that ”even in the absence of diagnosed cardiovascular
disease or other risk factors, the forecasted longterm benefits of treating
hyperlipidemia appear substantial and the costeffectiveness ratios represent
good value.”
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Intensive blood glucose control is
cost-effective in type 2 diabetics
Från BMJ 2000;320:1373- 1378.
Intensive blood glucose control in type 2 diabetics costs more than
conventional therapy, but provides savings in the form of reduced complications,
according to a report in the May 20th issue of the British Medical Journal.
Dr. Alastair Gray, of the University of Oxford, in Headington, UK, and
colleagues used data from the 10-year United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes
Study to evaluate the cost effectiveness of intensive blood glucose
control (maintaining fasting blood glucose below 6 mmol/L) compared
with conventional control (maintaining fastingblood glucose below 15
mmol/L) in 3,867 patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes.
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The intensive blood glucose control patients received either insulin
or sulfonylurea drugs. The average incremental cost of intensive antidiabetic
treatment, compared with conventional management, was 659 British pounds
sterling, the authors report. In contrast, the mean cost of hospital
admissions was higher for the conventional management group (4,266 pounds
versus 3,494 pounds for the intensive control group), largely because
of longer lengths of stay and slightly higher numbers of admissions.
The reduced cost of complications (hospitalizations)
in the intensive control group counterbalanced the increased cost of
treatment, the investigators note, resulting in insignificant differences
in total costs between the two treatment approaches. These comparisons
held when insulin and sulfonylurea therapies were analyzed separately.
Cost-effectiveness was evaluated using the incremental cost per year
of event-free survival, the report indicates. Discounting the costs
at 6% per year and leaving the effects undiscounted, the authors arrive
at a cost of 563 pounds per event free year gained.
”With costs and effects discounted at 6% a year,”
they add, ”there is a 10% probability that intensive blood glucose control
policy would prove to be cost saving compared with a conventional policy,
a 50% probability that the cost per event free year lies above (or below)
the point estimate of 1,166 pounds, and an 80% probability that the
ratio is less than 2,500 pounds.” ”Our results suggest that intensive
management of patients with type 2 diabetes is a feasible and economically
supportable option,” the authors conclude.
Artikeln kan läsas i fulltext
Online: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/
content/full/320/7246/1373
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New TZD shows potent antidiabetic properties
in mice
Från Diabetes 2000;49:759- 767.
NC-2100, a new thiazolidinedione (TZD), controls
diabetes without increasing body weight in a mouse model, according
to a report in the May issue of Diabetes. A variety of TZDs activate
the transcriptional factor peroxisome proliferator activated receptor-gamma
(PPAR-gamma) and have potent antidiabetic properties, but they also
promote adipogenesis.
Other studies have suggested a relationship
between PPAR-gamma activation and both antidiabetic activity and adipogenesis,
the authors explain. Dr. Kiyoto Motojima, of Toho University, in Chiba,
Japan, and colleagues examined the effects of NC-2100 and other TZDs
on plasma glucose, PPAR-gamma activation, and adipogenesis in obese
KKAy mice. NC-2100 activated PPAR-gamma much more weakly than did other
TZDs, the authors report, and NC-2100 stimulation of adipocyte differentiation
was 30 fold weaker than that induced by troglitazone or pioglitazone.
Nevertheless, NC-2100 at concentrations
of 0.1% lowered plasma glucose levels as effectively as did 0.1% troglitazone
and 0.03% pioglitazone, the results indicate. ”These results strongly
suggest that TZD-induced activation of PPAR-gamma does not directly
correlate with antidiabetic (glucose-lowering) action,” the authors
propose. NC-2100 had little impact on body weight and fat mass, the
investigators note, even though it stimulated food intake by 20% to
30%. The increased intake without a concomitant body weight or fat weight
increase may be partly explained by NC-2100’s induction of the expression
of UCP1, a protein that uncouples proton movement and ATP synthesis
and thereby stimulates energy expenditure.
”Interestingly,” the researchers note,
”UCP1 mRNA was induced both in mesenteric and subcutaneous white adipose
tissue by NC-2100 in a dose-dependent manner.”
”These characteristics of NC-2100 should be beneficial
for humans with limited amounts of brown adipose tissue,” the authors
conclude.
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TZDs prevent glomerular
dysfunction in diabetic rats
Från Diabetes 2000;49:1022-1032.
Japanese researchers have discovered
that glomerular dysfunction in diabetic rats is prevented by thiazolidinedione
(TZD) compounds, independent of their insulin-sensitizing effects. According
to a report published in the June issue of Diabetes, these findings
suggest that TZD compounds may have a therapeutic role in diabetic nephropathy.
Dr. Masakazu Haneda and colleagues from
Shiga University of Medical Science explain that several in vitro and
in vivo studies have suggested that the TZD agent troglitazone may prevent
early and late glomerular dysfunction by inhibiting the activation of
the diacylglycerol-protein kinase C-extracellular signal-regulated kinase
(DAG-PKC- ERK) signal transduction pathway. In the present
study, the authors tested this hypothesis by determining whether troglitazone
could prevent glomerular dysfunction in rats with streptozotocin-induced
diabetes. The investigators report that troglitazone prevented both
glomerular hyperfiltration and albuminuria in the diabetic rats.
They also found that this agent increased
expression of ECM proteins components of the glomerular mesangium and
transforming growth factor beta-1, which is thought to stimulate ECM
overproduction. According to the paper, troglitazone abrogated activation
of the DAG-PKC-ERK pathway in rat glomeruli independently of its insulin-sensitizing
activity. In vitro studies with troglitazone and another related compound,
pioglitazone, confirmed these observations.
In light of their findings, Dr. Haneda’s team concludes
that ”TZDs might be useful for the prevention of the development and
progression of diabetic nephropathy in subjects with type 2 diabetes,
by improving metabolic control, and subjects with both types 1 and 2
diabetes, by preventing the activation of the DAG-PKC-ERK pathway.”
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Nytt från UKPDS
Rury Holman, UKPDS, angav följande nya
sammanfat-tande utdata i juni i Amsterdam vid European Society of Cardiology
- se också BMJ online fulltext www.bmj.com 12/8-2000.
Risk för hjärtinfarkt och cerebovaskulär
sjukdom: * 14% minskning per 1% minsk-ning i mean HbA1c. 100% av diabetikerna
har enligt definition hyperglykemi * 13% minskning per 10 mm Hg minskning
i mean systoliskt blodtryck. 50% av våra diabetiker typ 2 har behov
av behandling av sitt blodtryck. * 29% minskning per 1 mmol/L minskning
i mean LDL-kolesterol. 30-70% av våra diabetiker typ 2 har behoav av
lipidsänkande behandling. * 9% minskning per 1 mmol/L stegring i mean
HDL-kolesterol. Således bör patienter med typ 2 diabetes få tillgång
till en multipel riskfaktorkontroll för man skall lyckas med prevention
av makrovaskulär sjukdom.
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Många patienter tar inte
sin ordinerade medicin 
Mats Foldevi, allmänläkare och lektor vid Linköpings univer-sitet
har gjort en forskningsrapport i ämnet. Språkproblem förekom mer som
en orsak. Vi måste lära oss att bemöta också patienter som har information
via internet, de köper inte ett argument bara för att jag säger det.
En mer engagerad patient är en nyckelfaktor för en lyckad behandling,
anser Foldevi. Följer patienten läkemedelsordinationen? Svaret är ”nej”
i nästan sju fall av tio. Vid mellan hälften och en tredjedel av alla
läkemedelsordinationer tar patienten medicin enligt ordination.
I en terdjedel tar patienten läkemedlet,
men inte enligt ordination. I mellan en tredjedel och en fjärdedel hämtas
den förskrivna medicinen aldrig ut. - Jag tror att det till stor del
är ett kommunikationsproblem mellan läjare och patient, säger Foldevi.
Margareta Fallsberg undervi-sar i patientkommunikation och medicinsk
följsamhet vid Linköpings universitet och har författat boken ”Tankar
om mediciner och medicinering” som på djupet också analyserar pedago-giska
problem kring medicinering. Aktuella forskningsresultat gäller inte
specifikt diabetes utan mer allmänt.
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Sildenafil reverses diabetic
gastroparesis in mice
Från J Clin Invest 2000;106:373-384.
The phosphodiesterase inhibitor sildenafil
augments nitric oxide signaling and reverses the symptoms of gastropathy
in two murine models of diabetes, researchers report in the August issue
of The Journal of Clinical Investigation. Dr. Christopher
D. Ferris and colleagues from The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore,
Maryland, generated genetic and streptozotocin induced models of diabetes
in mice. The mice exhibited defects in gastric emptying and nonadrenergic,
noncholinergic relaxation of pyloric muscle similar to that of mice
lacking the neuronal nitric oxide synthase gene (nNOS), the investigators
report.
In addition, Dr. Ferris’ group observed
a pronounced reduction in pyloric nNOS protein and mRNA in the mice.
Insulin implants returned nNOS expression and pyloric function to normal
levels. ”Thus, diabetic gastropathy in mice reflects an insulin sensitive
reversible loss of nNOS,” Dr. Ferris and colleagues conclude. Further
experiments revealed that delayed gastric emptying could also be reversed
by administration of sildenafil, which ”augments NO signaling.” ”These
findings have implications for novel therapeutic approaches and may
clarify the etiology of diabetic gastropathy,” the authors say.
In an interview with Reuters Health, Dr. Ferris (soon to be at the Vanderbilt
University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee) said that the use
of sildenafil to treat gastroparesis ”may not be a long way off.” He
added, ”We have clinical trial protocols written now,” and ”pilot trials
could begin in September.”
He noted that even though insulin also
reverses gastroparesis in diabetic mice, a lot of insulin-treated diabetic
patients still experience this condition and sildenafil has the potential
to help these patients.
”Within a year,” he said, ”we expect to be able to determine
if [sildenafil] is efficacious in humans.” The best known effect of
sildenafil to treat erectile dysfunction probably will not be an issue
for most patients.
”Sil-denafil allows people to have erections. It
works only in the proper context, so we don’t expect that to be a problem,”
Dr. Ferris commented.
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Det metabola syndromet är relaterat
till tjocka vänsterkammar-väggar men
inte till vänsterkammar-hypertrofi
Av Johan Sandström, Uppsala.
Vänsterkammarhypertrofi, en av de viktigaste
kardiovaskulära riskfaktorerna, är ett tillstånd med till stor del okänd
etiologi. I en artikel den 6 juni i Circulation (1) belyses sambanden
mellan vänsterkammarens geome-tri och faktorer i det metabola syndromet
(obesitas, hypertoni, dyslipidemi, glukosintolerans och insulinresistens). Analyserna
är utförda i en stor population 70- åriga män boende i Uppsala, undersökta
med bland annat ekokardiografi, hyperinsulinemisk euglykemisk clamp,
oralt glukos-toleranstest (OGTT) och 24- timmars ambulatorisk blodtrycks
och pulsmätning. Relativ vänsterkammarvägg-tjocklek (väggtjocklek/inner-diameter)
var signifikant relaterad till insulinkänslighetsindex, (r= -0.14),
glukos- och insulinnivåer vid OGTT, 32-33 split-proinsulin, triglycerider,
fria fettsyror, midja-/ stusskvot, body mass index, 24- timmarsblodtryck
och puls (r=0.10-0.22). Endast systoliskt 24-timmarsblodtryck (r=0.15),
puls (r= -0.14) och insulin efter 2 timmars OGTT (r= -0.10) var signifikant
relaterade till vänsterkammarmasseindex (se figur).
Sammanfattningsvis var flera komponenter i det metabola syndromet relaterade
till tjocka vänsterkammarväggar med normal innerdiameter (concentric
remodeling), men inte till vänster-kammarhypertrofi, i denna populationsbaserade
studie av äldre män.
Dessa resultat överensstäm-mer med en tidigare populations-studie
(2), men skiljer sig från ett flertal mindre studier med varierande
inklusionskriterier och ofta bristande indexering av vänsterkammarmassa
för kroppsstorlek. Vad gäller eventuella orsakssamband kan man spekulera
i om den trofiska effekt av insulin på myocardiet som har visats i djurmodeller,
hos människa inskränker sig till att påverka muskelfibrernas tjocklek
och därmed vänsterkammarväggtjockleken, och inte vänster-kammarens innerdiameter.
Concentric remodeling har tidigare relaterats
till en ökad perifer kärlresistens, vilket kan bero på minskad kapillarisering
av bland annat skelettmuskulatur, vilket även observerats vid det metabola
syndromet. Studien visar att män med det metabola syndromet i ökad utsträckning
har förtjockade vänsterkammarväggar med normal innerdiameter (concentric
remodeling), en vänsterkammar-geometri som är förknippad med en ökad
kardiovaskulär risk. Denna hjärtgeometriförändring kan kanske vara ett
patofysiologiskt steg i händelsekedjan mellan utvecklande av det metabola
syndromet och senare kardiovaskulär sjuklighet och död.
Mer om vår kohort och publikationer kan läsas på www.pubcare.uu.se/
ULSAM/
Johan Sundström
Inst. f. Folkhälso- & Vårdvetenskap
Geriatrik, Uppsala Universitet
Box 609, 751 25 Uppsala
Fax 018-6117976
E-post: johasund@mail.anst.uu.se
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Referenser
1. Sundstrom J, Lind L, Nystrom N, Zethelius B,
Andrén B, Hales CN, Lithell HO. Left Ventricular Concentric Remodeling
Rather Than Left Ventricular Hypertrophy Is Related to the Insulin Resistance
Syndrome in Elderly Men. Circulation 2000;101:2595-2600.
2. Ohya Y, Abe I, Fujii K, Ohmori S, Onaka U, Kobayashi
K, et al. Hyperinsulinemia and left ventricular geometry in a work-site
population in Japan. Hypertension 1996;27(3 Pt 2):729-34.
Från Läkartidningen. Publikation
sker med tillåtelse från författaren och LT.
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