Vitamin C improves endothelium-dependent vasodilation in patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
FK Timimi,
HH Ting,
EA Haley,
MA Roddy,
P Ganz,
and
MA Creager
Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
OBJECTIVES: We sought to determine whether the antioxidant vitamin C improves endothelium-dependent vasodilation of forearm resistance vessels in patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. BACKGROUND: Endothelium-dependent vasodilation is impaired in patients with diabetes mellitus. Oxidatively mediated degradation of endothelium-derived nitric oxide contributes to abnormal endothelium-dependent vasodilation in animal models of diabetes mellitus. METHODS: The study group included 10 patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and 10 age-matched control subjects. Forearm blood flow was determined by venous occlusion plethysmography. Endothelium-dependent vasodilation was assessed by intraarterial infusion of methacholine (0.3 to 10 microg/min). Endothelium-independent vasodilation was assessed by intraarterial infusion of nitroprusside (0.3 to 10 microg/min). Forearm blood flow dose-response curves were determined for each drug infusion before and during concomitant infusion of vitamin C (24 mg/min). RESULTS: In diabetic subjects, endothelium-dependent vasodilation was augmented by the concomitant infusion of vitamin C (p = 0.001). Endothelium-independent vasodilation was not affected by the concomitant infusion of vitamin C (p = NS). In control subjects, vitamin C infusion did not affect endothelium-dependent vasodilation (p = NS). CONCLUSIONS: Vitamin C selectively restores the impaired endothelium-dependent vasodilation in the forearm resistance vessels of patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. These findings indicate that nitric oxide degradation by oxygen-derived free radicals contributes to abnormal vascular reactivity in humans with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
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