Abstract
To examine the effect of a 12-week daily treatment with 160 mg of valsartan, an angiotensin II receptor blocker, on the microcirculation and macrocirculation of type 2 diabetic patients (T2DM) and healthy subjects. This was a prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover study. Thirteen T2DM with no severe complications and 13 healthy subjects completed the trial. Treatment with valsartan in T2DM improved the resting forearm skin blood flow and increased the resting brachial artery diameter but had no effects on arterial blood pressure, large vessel vascular reactivity, or carotid intima-media thickness. Resting skin blood flow increased by 60% (2%-90%; median and 25th-75th percentiles) during valsartan treatment and by only 2% (-22% to 27%) during placebo treatment (P < .05). No changes were observed in the nondiabetic subjects. Immunostaining studies of forearm skin biopsy samples from T2DM and healthy subjects showed that valsartan reduced poly(adenosine diphosphate-ribose) polymerase (PARP) activity in 50% (6/12) of the subjects. PARP activity remained unchanged in placebo-treated subjects (P < .02). In addition, valsartan treatment increased CD31 staining in 33% (4/12) of the subjects, whereas no chan...Continue Reading
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