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The 24 h periodic pattern of blood pressure was studied in 44 patients with diabetes mellitus (14 type 1, 30 type 2; mean duration of disease 6.5 ± 1.8 years) in good metabolic control but with abnormal cardiovascular reflex responses; of these 21 were normotensive and 23 hypertensive. All had abnormal responses to at least two out of four tests: deep breathing, lying to standing, Valsalva manoeuvre and postural hypotension. Two sex- and agematched groups, consisting of 20 normotensive and 20 hypertensive diabetic patients without dysautonomia, were studied as controls. Each patient underwent ambulatory blood pressure monitoring for at least 24 h, using an auscultatory automatic device. Data were analysed using the sum of three periodic functions (Fourier partial sum). In the diabetic normotensive groups, the absolute blood pressure fell to its night-time minimum more rapidly, and increased to its morning maximum more slowly, in those with abnormal cardiovascular reflexes than in the controls (nightly blood pressure decrease −5.8/−4.7 vs. −3.8/−4.0 mmHg/h; increase 4.7/3.6 vs. 5.9/6.1 mmHg/h). The same behaviour was found in both hypertensive groups but the amplitude of the differences was more marked (blood pressure nocturnal decrease −7.7/−7.1 vs. −4.3/−3.9 mmHg/h; increase 3.2/2.1 vs. 5.8/4.3 mmHg/h). This analysis of 24 h ambulatory blood pressure data may be of value in diagnosis and evaluation of autonomic deficits.
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Germano', G., Caparra, A., Valentino, S. et al. Early nocturnal blood pressure changes in diabetic autonomic neuropathy assessed by Fourier series. Clinical Autonomic Research 3, 249–254 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01829014
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