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Improvement in coronary endothelial function is independently associated with a slowed progression of coronary artery calcification in type 2 diabetes mellitus
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Schindler, Thomas
Cadenas, Jerson
Facta, Alvaro D.
Li, Yanjie
Olschewski, Manfred
Sayre, James
Goldin, Jonathan
Schelbert, Heinrich R.
Published in European Heart Journal. 2009, vol. 30, no. 24, p. 3064-3073
Abstract AIMS: To examine a relationship between alterations of structure and function of the arterial wall in response to glucose-lowering therapy in type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) after a 1-year follow-up (FU). METHODS AND RESULTS: In DM (n = 22) and in healthy controls (n = 17), coronary artery calcification (CAC) was assessed with electron beam tomography and carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) with ultrasound, whereas coronary function was determined with positron emission tomography-measured myocardial blood flow (MBF) at rest, during cold pressor testing (CPT), and during adenosine stimulation at baseline and after FU. The decrease in plasma glucose in DM after a mean FU of 14 +/- 1.9 months correlated with a lower progression of CAC and carotid IMT (r = 0.48, P ≤ 0.036 and r = 0.46, P ≤ 0.055) and with an improvement in endothelium-related DeltaMBF to CPT and to adenosine (r = 0.46, P ≤ 0.038 and r = 0.36, P ≤ 0.056). After adjusting for metabolic parameters by multivariate analysis, the increases in DeltaMBF to CPT after glucose-lowering treatment remained a statistically significant independent predictor of the progression of CAC (P ≤ 0.001 by one-way analysis of variance). CONCLUSION: In DM, glucose-lowering treatment may beneficially affect structure and function of the vascular wall, whereas the observed improvement in endothelium-related coronary artery function may also mediate direct preventive effects on the progression of CAC.
Keywords Adult — Calcinosis/*drug therapy/physiopathology — Carotid Artery Diseases/pathology — Coronary Artery Disease/*drug therapy/pathology/physiopathology — Coronary Circulation/drug effects — Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/*drug therapy/pathology/physiopathology — Diabetic Angiopathies/*drug therapy/pathology/physiopathology — Disease Progression — Endothelium, Vascular/physiology — Female — Humans — Hypoglycemic Agents/*therapeutic use — Male — Middle Aged — Positron-Emission Tomography — Tunica Intima/pathology — Tunica Media/pathology
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PMID: 19914919
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Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de médecine
Research group Groupe Schindler Thomas (cardiologie) (890)
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(ISO format) 		SCHINDLER, Thomas et al. Improvement in coronary endothelial function is independently associated with a slowed progression of coronary artery calcification in type 2 diabetes mellitus. In: European Heart Journal, 2009, vol. 30, n° 24, p. 3064-3073. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehp482 https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:20081

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