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Soren Harnois-Leblanc1,2,3, Vanessa McNealis1,4, Matthias G Friedrich5,6
1Research Center of the Sainte-Justine University Hospital, Montréal, QC, Canada.
Introduction:
Despite heightened risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) among individuals with type 1 diabetes, few studies in this population have investigated the development of CVD using early markers in adolescence. We compared risk factors (blood pressure (BP) and dyslipidemia) and early markers of CVD between adolescents with and without type 1 diabetes and explored effect modification by sex.
Methods:
Cross-sectional study using data from the CARdiovascular Disease risk in pEdiatric type 1 diAbetes (CARDEA) study. We recruited 100 adolescents with type 1 diabetes at the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Center and 97 adolescents without diabetes (14-18 years). We measured arterial stiffness by carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity, endothelial function by brachial artery flow-mediated dilation test, as well as left ventricular (LV) mass, papillary mass, and wall thickness by cardiac MRI. We used multivariable linear regression models to assess the impact of type 1 diabetes on each outcome adjusting for age, sex, ethnicity, adiposity, and familial income.
Results:
Adolescents with type 1 diabetes had 0.21 standard deviations (SD) (95% CI: 0.04; 0.38) higher diastolic blood pressure z-score (zDBP), 0.21 mmol/L (95% CI: 0.02; 0.40) higher low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c) levels, and 17% (95% CI: 4; 29) higher triglyceride levels and lower endothelial function based on acceleration (-77.4 cm/s2, 95% CI: -133.1; -21.6) compared with adolescents without diabetes. Girls with type 1 diabetes had higher systolic blood pressure z-score (zSBP), and boys with type 1 diabetes had lower LV mass and wall thickness compared to healthy peers.
Conclusions:
In addition to higher BP and abnormal lipid profiles, adolescents with type 1 diabetes present endothelial dysfunction and alterations in cardiac structure (in boys) compared to adolescents without diabetes, suggesting that CVD prevention should be incorporated into type 1 diabetes management early in the disease.
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