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Abstract:
It is unknown whether glycaemic variability adds to the risk of microvascular complications of diabetes over and above the mean glucose value for a patient. We examined the effect of purposefully induced short-term glycaemic variability on oxidative stress markers. Eleven healthy subjects underwent three sequential glycaemic states; sustained hyperglycaemia, sustained euglycaemia and variable glycaemia, using glycaemic clamps for 3 h. Twenty-four hours urinary 8-isoprostane-PGF2α was measured before and after each glycaemic state to assess oxidative stress. The median and interquartile range of the urinary 8-iso-PGF2α in ng/24 h were (1373, 513), (996, 298) and (1227, 472) for the euglycaemic, hyperglycaemic and variable states, respectively. There was no significant difference in urinary isoprostanes between the three different states; mean ranks 20.9, 11.9 and 18.2 for the euglycaemic state, hyperglycaemic state and glycaemic variability state, respectively, p = 0.083. In conclusion, we did not see a significant increase in the urinary isoprostanes when glycaemic variability was induced under controlled conditions in healthy individuals.
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