Daily blood pressure variations in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus and nephropathy

Abstract

То study a relationship between systemic hemodynamic parameters, albuminuria, and autonomic dysfunction in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM-1) without obvious nephropathy, the authors examined 55 patients in the inpatient setting. Twenty-nine patients had a normal urinary albumin excretion (CAE), 26 patients had microalbuminuria. 24-hour blood pressure monitoring (24-h BPM) was occillometrically made. The average daily, average diurnal and nocturnal values of systolic and diastolic blood pressure (BP) were significantly higher in DM-1 patients with microalbuniuria than in those with normal UAE. Routine autonomic cardiovascular tests showed that the incidence and severity of autonomic neuropathy were also higher in patients with microalbuminuria. Arterial hypertension (AH) diagnosed in compliance with the 24-h BPM criteria was detected. in 17.2%) of the DM-1 patients with normal UAE and in 42.3%) of the patients with microalbuminuria. According to the data of 24-h BPM, the incidence of arterial hypertension was 1.7 times as high as that evidenced by single BP measurements. The specific feature of circadian hemodynamic variations in patients with DM-1 was a low nocturnal BP decrease. 37.9%) of the patients with normoalbuminuria and 61.5%) of the patients with microalbuminuria had no normal (>10%)) nocturnal BP lowering. Stepwise regression analysis has ascertained that in patients with DM-1 without obvious nephropathy, systemic hemodynamic disorders are associated with albuminuria, autonomic dysfunction, and glycemic monitoring quality.