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Water distribution in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in various states of metabolic control

Brizzolara A, Barbieri MP, Adezati L, Viviani GL. Water distribution in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in various states of metabolic control. Eur J Endocrinol 1996;135:609–15. ISSN 0804–4643

Alterations in water compartments have been described in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). Both insulin and lack of natriuretic counteracting response lead to water expansion, while hyperglycemica-induced osmotic diuresis leads to water depletion. Both total body water and water distribution in the extra-intracellular space, as well as their relationships to metabolic control, were investigated in 15 controls (30.1 ± 1.4 years) and in 26 IDDM patients (31.3 ± 1.6, diabetes duration 11.3 ± 1.4 years) who were neither hypertensive nor proteinuric. The amounts of total body water (TBW) and extracellular water (ECW) were predicted by impedance measurements at 100 KHz and at 1 KHz. The amount of intracellular water (ICW) was computed as the difference between the two. Water distribution was estimated by measuring the ratio between low- and high-frequency impedance and by computing the ratio between ECW and ICW. The IDDM patients were divided into four groups on the basis of reference HbA_1c mean and SD: A mean +2 SD < B mean + 4 SD < C mean + 6SD < D. The groups were comparable with sodium intake, insulin dosage, fasting glycemia and laboratory hydration markers. As compared to controls, impedance values at 1, 5, 10, 50 and 100 KHz were significantly lower in diabetic patients and the difference within group D increased as the frequency increased: –3.9% at 1 KHz, –10.1% at 100 KHz. As compared to controls, groups A, B and C showed higher TBW, ECW and ICW while water distribution was normal, and group D showed higher TBW and ICW but normal ECW and a different water distribution. In all IDDM patients, HbA_1c correlated with ECW (r = –0.49) and distribution ratios (r = 0.42, impedance; r = 0.40, ECW/ICW ratio). These observations suggest that good or moderate long-term control IDDM patients have proportionately normal distributions of ECW and ICW excess. However, water excess in poor control IDDM patients was only found in the ICW space.

Giorgio L Viviani, Department of Internal Medicine, Clinica Medica III, University of Genoa, Viale Benedetto XV, 6. 16132 Genoa, Italy

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