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  • Title: Diurnal variation in blood pressure in insulin-dependent diabetic smokers and non-smokers with and without microalbuminuria.
    Author: Sinha RN, Patrick AW, Richardson L, MacFarlane IA.
    Journal: Diabet Med; 1997 Apr; 14(4):291-5. PubMed ID: 9113482.
    Abstract:
    In subjects with essential hypertension, loss of the normal nocturnal dip in blood pressure is associated with a greater risk of developing end-organ complications. In subjects with diabetes, smoking carries a similar association. To assess whether these factors may have an aetiological and synergistic role in the vascular complications of diabetes, 24-hour blood pressure monitoring was performed in insulin-dependent diabetic (IDDM) patients with normal albumin excretion (n = 19) and microalbuminuria (n = 21) of comparable age and duration of diabetes, and with no evidence of autonomic neuropathy or hypertension. The potential influence of smoking was examined by subdividing the groups, depending on smoking status. Ten of the microalbuminuric group and 9 of the normoalbuminuric group were current smokers, the remaining patients never having smoked. There was a significant difference between mean (+/-SD) daytime vs nocturnal blood pressure in patients with normal albumin excretion (114 +/- 3/70 +/- 4 vs 102 +/- 3/62 +/- 3 mmHg; p < 0.001) and microalbuminuria (109 +/- 5/75 +/- 5 vs 101 +/- 3/65 +/- 4 mmHg; p < 0.001) but mean blood pressure values did not differ significantly between the groups. A similar fall in nocturnal blood pressure was found in smokers and non-smokers with and without microalbuminuria (p < 0.001), but there was no difference between the mean blood pressure values in the different subgroups. In conclusion, normotensive IDDM patients, who do not have autonomic neuropathy, retain a significant diurnal variation in blood pressure, irrespective of smoking habit or presence of microalbuminuria.
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