TY - JOUR
T1 - Association of vagal tone with serum insulin, glucose, and diabetes mellitus - The ARIC Study
AU - Liao, Duanping
AU - Cai, Jianwen
AU - Brancati, Frederick L.
AU - Folsom, Aaron
AU - Barnes, Ralph W.
AU - Tyroler, Herman A.
AU - Heiss, Gerardo
N1 - Funding Information:
The work was completed while the lead author (D.L.) was a post-doctoral fellow in the Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology Training Program supported by NIH, NHLBI NRSA grant: 5T32HL07055.
Funding Information:
Support for this work was provided by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Contracts NOl-HC-55015, NOl-HC-55016, NOl-HC-55018, NOl-HC-55019, NOl-HC-55020, NOl-HC-55021, NOl-HC-55022.
PY - 1995/12
Y1 - 1995/12
N2 - Reduced vagal activity assessed by heart rate variability (HRV) has been observed in studies of diabetics, but this association has not been reported at the population level. To investigate the association of HRV with diabetes mellitus, as well as fasting serum insulin, and glucose, we examined a stratified random sample of 1933 individuals (154 diabetics and 1779 non-diabetics), aged 45-65 years from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study cohort. Two-minute, resting, supine beat-to-beat heart rate records were collected. Power spectral density estimation was used to derive HRV high frequency power (HF, 0.15-0.35 Hz) as the conventional marker of vagal function. Age, race, and gender-adjusted geometric means of HF were 0.78 and 1.27 (beat/min)2 for diabetics and non-diabetics respectively (P for mean difference < 0.01), reflecting a reduced vagal activity in diabetics. In individuals not diagnosed as diabetics, a graded, inverse association was observed between fasting serum insulin and HF (P for trend < 0.01): the age, race, and gender-adjusted geometric mean values of HF in the lowest and highest quartiles of serum insulin were 1.34 and 1.14 (beat/minute)2, respectively. A similar association was observed between glucose and HF in a univariate model, but not in the adjusted model. This first population-based study on this subject confirmed that diabetics have significantly lower vagal activity than non-diabetics. In individuals not diagnosed as diabetics, serum insulin, and, to a lesser degree, serum glucose were inversely associated with vagal function, suggesting a role in the pathogenesis of diabetic neuropathy.
AB - Reduced vagal activity assessed by heart rate variability (HRV) has been observed in studies of diabetics, but this association has not been reported at the population level. To investigate the association of HRV with diabetes mellitus, as well as fasting serum insulin, and glucose, we examined a stratified random sample of 1933 individuals (154 diabetics and 1779 non-diabetics), aged 45-65 years from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study cohort. Two-minute, resting, supine beat-to-beat heart rate records were collected. Power spectral density estimation was used to derive HRV high frequency power (HF, 0.15-0.35 Hz) as the conventional marker of vagal function. Age, race, and gender-adjusted geometric means of HF were 0.78 and 1.27 (beat/min)2 for diabetics and non-diabetics respectively (P for mean difference < 0.01), reflecting a reduced vagal activity in diabetics. In individuals not diagnosed as diabetics, a graded, inverse association was observed between fasting serum insulin and HF (P for trend < 0.01): the age, race, and gender-adjusted geometric mean values of HF in the lowest and highest quartiles of serum insulin were 1.34 and 1.14 (beat/minute)2, respectively. A similar association was observed between glucose and HF in a univariate model, but not in the adjusted model. This first population-based study on this subject confirmed that diabetics have significantly lower vagal activity than non-diabetics. In individuals not diagnosed as diabetics, serum insulin, and, to a lesser degree, serum glucose were inversely associated with vagal function, suggesting a role in the pathogenesis of diabetic neuropathy.
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U2 - 10.1016/0168-8227(95)01190-0
DO - 10.1016/0168-8227(95)01190-0
M3 - Article
C2 - 8861461
AN - SCOPUS:0029553932
SN - 0168-8227
VL - 30
SP - 211
EP - 221
JO - Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
JF - Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
IS - 3
ER -