Autonomic dysfunction associates with prolongation of QT intervals and blunted night BP in obese women with visceral obesity - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 2002 Dec;25(11):RC32-5.

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Autonomic dysfunction associates with prolongation of QT intervals and blunted night BP in obese women with visceral obesity

K Esposito et al. J Endocrinol Invest. 2002 Dec.

Abstract

Prolonged QT intervals and a reduced fall of nocturnal blood pressure (BP) both predict an increased risk of cardiovascular events in obese subjects. We evaluated circadian BP variations (24-h ambulatory BP monitoring), autonomic function (power spectral analysis of RR interval oscillations) and cardiac repolarization times (QTc-dispersion and QTc interval) in 70 obese women, aged 25-44 yr, grouped by WHR into group A (WHR > 0.85, no.=38) and group B (WHR < or = 0.85, no.=32). Compared with non-obese age-matched women (no.=25, BMI=23+/-1.8) and obese women of group B, obese women of group A had higher values of QTc-d (p<0.05) and QTc (p<0.05), an altered sympathovagal balance (ratio of low-frequency/high-frequency power, p<0.01), and a blunted nocturnal drop in BP (p<0.01). In group A, QTc-d and the QTc interval correlated with diastolic night BP (p<0.01) and sympathovagal balance (p<0.01). WHR and plasma insulin levels correlated with QT intervals, reduced nocturnal fall in diastolic BP and sympathovagal balance (p<0.01). Prolongation of cardiac repolarization times and the reduction of nocturnal fall in BP coexist in obese women with visceral obesity, and might contribute to their raised cardiovascular risk. Autonomic dysfunction may be the common mechanism for this association.

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