| Autor: |
Paul F, McDonagh, Jason Y, Hokama, Stephen C, Gale, Jeremy J, Logan, Grace, Davis-Gorman, Steve, Goldman, Jack G, Copeland |
| Rok vydání: |
2003 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Journal of diabetes and its complications. 17(5) |
| ISSN: |
1056-8727 |
| Popis: |
Cardiac ischemia is a serious complication of type 2 diabetes. However, the pathophysiology underlying the increased severity of myocardial ischemia in diabetes is not clear. This study tested the hypothesis that platelet adhesion protein expression is chronically increased in older type 2 diabetic patients with established ischemic heart disease (IHD) compared to age-matched, nondiabetic patients with IHD. We compared the chronic expression of two platelet adhesion proteins, P-selectin and GPIIb/IIIa, in whole blood and the platelet reactivity to an acute stimulus. We found that the expression of platelet P-selectin was chronically increased in the nondiabetic patients with IHD compared to normal subjects. P-selectin expression was further increased in the diabetic patients with IHD compared to the nondiabetic IHD patients (P.05). The results were stratified to examine the potential effect of aspirin usage on adhesion protein expression. We found that the expression of the activated GPIIb/IIIa complex was significantly reduced in those diabetic cardiac patients who were taking aspirin (P.05). These findings indicate that, in patients with IHD, platelet adhesion proteins are chronically expressed and that the level of expression is increased more in IHD patients with type 2 diabetes. This complication of diabetes may exacerbate thrombus formation during a recurrent event, increasing the severity of ischemic injury. The results give further support to the use of aspirin in type 2 diabetics with established cardiac disease. |
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