Diabetic nephropathy is more common in patients with a positive family history of hypertension and with elevated red blood cell sodium-lithium countertransport, a marker of risk for essential hypertension. To evaluate whether there is a relationship between this cation transport system and indicators of risk of renal and cardiovascular complications in diabetic patients before the development of clinical proteinuria, we studied 31 type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetic patients with arterial hypertension, without clinical proteinuria and 12 normotensive normoalbuminuric diabetic patients. Sodium-lithium countertransport activity was significantly higher in hypertensive patients (0.43 +/- 0.03 mmol/l RBC x hr) than in normotensive patients (0.23 +/- 0.03; P less than 0.001). To better explore the nature of the association between this transport system and arterial hypertension, hypertensive patients were divided in two groups, with high (greater than 0.41 mmol/l RBC x hr) or normal (less than 0.41) sodium-lithium countertransport activity. The two groups of hypertensive diabetics were similar in age, sex, body mass index and blood pressure levels.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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