Polimorfismo I/D do gene da enzima conversora de angiotensina e C242T do gene do componente p22phox da NADPH oxidase em pacientes com diabetes tipo 1

Abstract

The renin-angiotensin system and the oxidative stress play an important role in the pathogenesis of the diabetic complications.In the present study 103 patients with type 1 diabetes (T1DM) aged 28.8 ± 10.6 years and with a disease duration of 13.1 ± 8.5 years and 158 non-diabetic controls were evaluated for the presence of the I / D polymorphism of the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) and the C242T polymorphism of the p22phox, an essential component for NADPH oxidase activation. The analysis was performed using polymerase chain reaction for both polymorphisms, followed by enzymatic restriction for C242T p22phox polymorphism. Genotypic distributions of both polymorphisms were in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. Diabetic patients underwent clinical and laboratory evaluation for the presence of risk factors associated with complications of diabetes (smoking and family history of type 2 diabetes, daily insulin dose, blood pressure, body mass index, waist hip ratio, urinary albumin excretion, glomerular filtration rate, lipid profile, glycemic control, C-reactive protein levels) and screened for the presence of diabetic nephropathy, considered as the presence of micro or macroalbuminuria, diabetic retinopathy and hypertension. There was no significant difference between the presence of ACE D or I allele and p22phox C or T allele between diabetic patients and controls. The evaluated polymorphisms were not associated with the presence of nephropathy, retinopathy or hypertension. Patients with the D allele showed higher levels of diastolic blood pressure (72.2 ± 12.3 vs 65.4 ± 11.6 mmHg, p = 0.047) and C-reactive protein compared with those carrying the II genotype [0.18 (0.04-0.38) vs 0.09 (0.04-0.16) mg/dl, p = 0.05], but both analysis lost statistical significance after correction for duration of diabetes. The combination of both polymorphisms was not associated with microvascular complications or hypertension. We conclude that in the studied population of type 1 diabetic patients, the frequency of ACE I / D and C242T of p22phox polymorphisms, alone or in combination, was not different in patients with or without early microvascular complications or hypertension. Also, the levels of different markers of cardiovascular risk did not differ for patients with the polymorphisms described above. However, prospective studies may determine the possible interaction between these polymorphisms and duration of diabetes in the clinical expression of chronic complications of diabetes.