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Impaired response of atrial natriuretic peptide to acute water load in obesity and in anorexia nervosa

Bogusawa Baranowska, Elbieta Wasilewska-Dziubiska, Magorzata Radzikowska, Artur Ponowski and Krzysztof Roguski

Baranowska B, Wasilewska-Dziubiska E, Radzikowska M, Ponowski A, Roguski K. Impaired response of atrial natriuretic peptide to acute water load in obesity and in anorexia nervosa. Eur J Endocrinol 1995;132:147–51. ISSN 0804–4643

Plasma atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) concentrations were determined in basal conditions and after infusion of 1000 ml of 0.9% NaCl in women with anorexia nervosa, in normotensive obese women and in healthy women of the control group. Additionally, in the obese women and in the controls, plasma ANP was measured after iv injection of clonidine. Anorectic patients were investigated in the period of weight loss (mean deficit of body weight was 40%). The mean body mass index (BMI) in the obese women was 36.44 ± 0.36 kg/m². Basal plasma ANP concentrations were significantly higher in both anorectic and obese women (p < 0.001 and p < 0.01, respectively). The response of ANP to acute water load was markedly blunted in anorexia nervosa and in obesity (% = 232% in control group, 14% in anorexia nervosa and 21% in obesity. A significant increase of ANP was found after iv injection of clonidine in the control group and in obesity (p < 0.001 and p < 0.01, respectively). However, the increase of response (expressed as a percentage change) in obese patients was lower than that in the control group (% = 64% and 199%, respectively). The response of ANP to ₂-adrenergic stimulation was higher than to hemodynamic stimulus. Our results suggest that the disturbed control of neuropeptides and neurotransmitters as well as changes in peripheral metabolism may explain the impaired responsibility of ANP to hemodynamic stimuli in anorectic and obese patients.

Department of Neuroendocrinology, Medical Center of Postgraduate Education, Fieldorfa 40, 04-158 Warsaw, Poland

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