Carbohydrate ingestion, with transient endogenous insulinaemia, produces both sympathetic activation and vasodilatation in normal humans

Author:

SCOTT Eleanor M.1,GREENWOOD John P.2,VACCA Giovanni2,STOKER John B.2,GILBEY Stephen G.1,MARY David A.S.G.2

Affiliation:

1. Department of Endocrinology, St James's University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds LS9 7TF, U.K.

2. Department of Cardiology, St James's University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds LS9 7TF, U.K.

Abstract

It has been shown that sustained insulin infusion causes an increase in sympathetic vasoconstrictor discharge but, despite this, also causes peripheral vasodilatation. The present study was designed to determine in healthy subjects the effect of ingestion of a carbohydrate meal, with its attendant physiological insulinaemia, on vascular resistance in and sympathetic vasoconstrictor discharge to the same vascular bed, and the relationship between these parameters. Fifteen healthy subjects were studied for 2h following ingestion of a carbohydrate meal. Calf vascular resistance was measured by venous occlusion plethysmography, and muscle sympathetic nerve activity was assessed by peroneal microneurography. Five of the subjects also ingested water on a separate occasion, as a control. Following the carbohydrate meal, the serum insulin concentration increased to 588±72pmol/l. This was associated with a 47% increase in skeletal muscle blood flow (P < 0.001), a 39% fall in vascular resistance (P < 0.001) and a 57% increase in sympathetic activity (P < 0.001). There was a significant correlation between the increase in insulin and the changes in blood flow, vascular resistance and sympathetic activity. In conclusion, we have shown that ingestion of a carbohydrate meal, with its attendant physiological insulinaemia, was associated with overriding skeletal muscle vasodilatation, despite an increase in sympathetic vasoconstrictor discharge to the same vascular bed. These mechanisms may be important in ensuring optimal glucose uptake and maintenance of blood pressure postprandially.

Publisher

Portland Press Ltd.

Subject

General Medicine

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