title: [Average level and variability of 24 hour blood pressure in the normotensive insulin-dependent diabetic patient].
abstract: This prospective study was designed: 1. to determine both the mean level and the intrinsic variability of blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) in normotensive patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM), by using a nonambulatory recorder; 2. to look for a relationship between these parameters and the indices of diabetic target-organ damage. The patient group consisted of 21 subjects with IDDM (6 females, 15 males), aged 19 to 70 years, who were normotensive according to WHO criteria. The duration of the diabetics ranged from 1.5 to 32 years. A control group of 17 age and sex-matched normal volunteers was also examined. Each subject underwent a 24 h non ambulatory BP recording, a 2-dimensional echocardiography and a pulsed doppler examination; furthermore, an index of autonomic nervous system dysfunction was established, as well as an index of microangiopathy. Twenty-four hour BP and HR mean levels appeared to be slightly higher in IDDM patients than in control group, but the difference was significant for night SBP and 24 h DBP only. No difference was found with regard to BP and HR absolute variabilities; the relative variability of night DBP was slightly lower in IDDM group (p less than 0.05). A loss of nocturnal decline in BP was noted in 2 control subjects and in 9 IDDM patients: 8 out of these IDDM patients had an autonomic dysfunction. An abnormal HR circadian pattern was seen in 1 control and in 2 IDDM subjects.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Service de cardiologie B, Poitiers.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Herpin
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Raud-Raynier
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Rosenberg
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fieuzal
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Maréchaud
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Demange
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D001794:Blood Pressure; D015924:Blood Pressure Monitors; D002940:Circadian Rhythm; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003925:Diabetic Angiopathies / Q000503:physiopathology; D015150:Echocardiography, Doppler; D005260:Female; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011446:Prospective Studies
vernacular_title: Niveau moyen et variabilité de la pression artérielle des 24 heures chez le diabétique insulinodépendant normotendu.