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Acute Hyperglycemia Does Not Affect the Reactivity of Coronary Microcirculation in Humans

Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University Federico II, 80131 Naples, Italy

Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: Brunella Capaldo, M.D., Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, via Pansini 5, 80131 Napoli, Italy. E-mail: bcapaldo{at}unina.it.

Objective: There is some evidence that acute hyperglycemia (H) may cause vascular dysfunction in normal subjects. This study investigates whether acute, short-term H affects coronary vasodilatory function in healthy subjects.

Design: Diastolic peak flow velocity in the left anterior descending coronary artery was measured at rest and after dipyridamole (0.56 mg/kg over 4 min) using transthoracic color Doppler echocardiography in 13 healthy men. Coronary flow reserve (CFR) was defined as the ratio of dipyridamole-induced coronary peak diastolic to resting peak diastolic flow velocity. CFR was measured both in euglycemia (E) and after 3 h H (14 mmol/liter) by a variable infusion of glucose and octreotide (0.4 mg/h) to prevent increase in insulin concentration.

Results: Fasting plasma glucose increased to 14.3 ± 0.33 mmol/liter during the study and maintained variability within less than 10%. Plasma insulin remained nearly stable during H. Resting diastolic flow velocity was 18.5 ± 0.6 cm/sec in E and increased to 20.0 ± 0.7 cm/sec during H (P < 0.005). Dipyridamole infusion produced a marked increase in coronary flow velocity, which reached values of 50.8 ± 2.9 cm/sec in E and 51.8 ± 2.1 cm/sec in H (P = not significant). CFR was 2.78 ± 0.16 in E and 2.59 ± 0.12 in H (P = not significant).

Conclusion: Our study indicates that short-term hyperglycemia does not affect the vasodilatory response of coronary microcirculation in healthy subjects.

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