Congenital generalized lipodystrophy (CGL) subjects have a high prevalence of cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy (CAN) and cardiac complications, including left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH). This study aimed to analyze insulin resistance (IR),… Click to show full abstract
Congenital generalized lipodystrophy (CGL) subjects have a high prevalence of cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy (CAN) and cardiac complications, including left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH). This study aimed to analyze insulin resistance (IR), CAN severity and LVH association. A cross sectional study with 10 CGL patients and 20 healthy controls. We evaluated clinical and laboratory data, echocardiogram parameters, 3 spectral analysis components - high frequency (HF), low frequency (LF), and very low frequency (VLF) - of heart rate variability (HRV), sympathetic-vagal balance, time domains of HRV, corrected QT interval (cQT), and 4 cardiovascular reflexes tests (postural hypotension test, orthostatic, respiratory, and valsalva coefficients - 2 abnormal tests: clinic CAN, 1 abnormal test: incipient CAN, and postural hypotension: advanced CAN). In CGL group 50% had CAN (40% clinic and 10% incipient) and 40% LVH. There was inverse correlation between LVMI and HF (p=0,007), IVS and HF (p=0,013), and positive correlation between IVS and HOMA-IR (p=0,042), and BP drop (p=0,010). These suggest that IR may be involved in the severity of CAN and cardiac autonomic dysfunction in the pathophysiology of cardiovascular complications in these disease. Disclosure V.O. Fernandes: None. C.M.M. Ponte: None. M.C. Gurgel: None. A.D.R. Montenegro: None. L.A.A. Batista: None. C.B.R. Liberato: None. C.B. D9Alva: None. R.M. Montenegro: None.
               
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