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Delayed gastric emptying is related to cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes.
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PMID:  21563651     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Process    
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BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS: Delayed gastric emptying (DGE) is the commonest gastrointestinal (GI) complication in type 2 diabetes. We aimed to evaluate the association between DGE and cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy (CAN) in type 2 diabetes.
PATIENTS AND METHODS: A total of 71 Chinese patients (39 men and 32 women, aged 60-90 years) and 30 controls (12 men and 18 women, aged 50-79 years) were studied in Nanjing, China. The gastric emptying was assessed by 13C-octanoic acid breath test (OBT) and gastric emptying ultrasonography (GEU). Cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy (CAN) was assessed by a scoring system being validated before.
RESULTS: The diabetic patients, except for a higher plasma glucose level, had similar characteristics compared to the non-diabetic controls. Diabetic patients had higher incidence of DGE and CAN than controls (48.5% vs. 10.7%, p = 0.001). Among diabetic patients with DGE (n = 27), 18 (66.7%) had CAN and 9 (33.3%) did not. Corresponding figures for those without DGE (n = 39) were 14 (35.9%) and 25 (64.1%), respectively (p = 0.014). Diabetes was independently associated with the risk of DGE with odd ratio (95% CI) of 15.6 (1.92, 127.06) (p = 0.010). The presence of diabetes or CAN was independently associated with the half gastric emptying time after adjusting for age, gender, plasma glucose and blood pressure.
CONCLUSIONS: We found a much prolonged gastric emptying time in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes as compared to non-diabetic controls. There was a high rate of CAN in diabetic patients, and it was associated with gastric emptying.
Authors:
R W Bian; Q L Lou; L B Gu; A P Kong; W Y So; G T Ko; X J Ouyang; Y Z Mo; R C Ma; J C Chan; C C Chow
Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Acta gastro-enterologica Belgica     Volume:  74     ISSN:  0001-5644     ISO Abbreviation:  Acta Gastroenterol. Belg.     Publication Date:  2011 Mar 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-05-13     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0414075     Medline TA:  Acta Gastroenterol Belg     Country:  Belgium    
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Languages:  eng     Pagination:  28-33     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Diabetes Care and Research Center, Jiangsu Province Institute of Geriatrics, Nanjing, China.
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