PMID: 9433832Feb 1, 1997Paper

Lipids, microalbuminuria and systemic blood pressure in patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus

Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia
M B GomesJ A Stum

Abstract

To determine the association between lipids, microalbuminuria and systemic blood pressure. Urinary albumin excretion rate (AER) was determined in timed overnight urine samples by radioimmunoassay. Microalbuminuria was defined when two out of three urine samples had AER ranging 20-200 micrograms/min. Lipids were determined by colorimetric methods (total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol and triglycerides). Fifty patients with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (28 females, 22 males) aged 21.9 +/- 7 years and with diabetes duration of 6.8 +/- 5.8 years attending the outpatients diabetes clinic were studied cross-sectionally. Microalbuminuria was present in 12% of our patients. A high systolic blood pressure (SBP) was found in microalbuminuric patients (p = 0.003). No difference concerning serum lipids were found in comparison between normo and microalbuminuric patients, although 20% of all patients had increased cholesterol and LDL cholesterol and 4% had high HDL cholesterol and triglycerides levels. Stepwise multiple regression analysis showed that SBP was the only significant independent variable to influence AER (r = 0.42 r2 = 0.18 p = 0.002). Although in our study, microalbuminuria was associated only with SBP, the independent al...Continue Reading

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