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Multiple Metabolic Syndrome Is Associated With Lower Heart Rate Variability: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study

  1. Duanping Liao, MD, PHD,
  2. Richard P Sloan, PHD,
  3. Wayne E Cascio, MD,
  4. Aaron R Folsom, MD,
  5. Angela D Liese, MD,
  6. Gregory W Evans, MS,
  7. Jianwen Cai, PHD and
  8. A Richey Sharrett, MD
  1. Division of Cardiology, School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
  2. Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, North Carolina
  3. Department of Health Evaluation Sciences, Penn State Medical College Hershey, Pennsylvania
  4. Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University New York, New York
  5. Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota
  6. Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health Bethesda, Maryland
  7. Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Münster Münster, Germany
  8. University of Münster Münster, Germany
  1. Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Duanping Liao, Department of Health Evaluation Sciences, Penn State Medical College, H173, 500 University Dr., Hershey, PA 17033. E-mail:dliao{at}psu.edu
Diabetes Care 1998 Dec; 21(12): 2116-2122. https://doi.org/10.2337/diacare.21.12.2116
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OBJECTIVE To test at the population level whether people with multiple metabolic syndrome (MMS) disorders have reduced cardiac autonomic activity (CAA).

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We examined the association between the level of CAA and MMS disorders, at the degree of clustering and the segregate combination levels, using a random sample of 2,359 men and women aged 45–64 years from the biracial, population-based Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (AR1C) Study. Supine resting 2-min beat-to-beat heart rate data were collected. High-frequency (HF) (0.15–0.35 Hz) and low-frequency (LF) (0.025–0.15 Hz) spectral powers, the ratio of LF to HF, and the SD of all normal R-R intervals (SDNN) were used as the conventional indices of heart rate variability (HRV) to measure CAA. The MMS disorders included hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and dyslipidemia.

RESULTS HRV indices were significantly lower in individuals with MMS disorders. The multivariable adjusted mean HF was 0.85 (beat/min)2 in subjects with all three MMS disorders, in contrast to 1.31 beat/min)2 in subjects without any MMS disorder. At the segregated combination level, the multivariable adjusted means ± SEM of HF were 1.34 ± 0.05, 1.16 ± 0.05, 1.01 ± 0.17, and 1.34 ± 0.05 (beat/min)2, respectively, for subjects without any MMS disorder, with hypertension only, with diabetes only, and with dyslipidemia only, and the means ± SEM of HF were 0.93 ± 0.04,0.70 ± 0.15, and 1.20 ± 0.05 eat/min)2, respectively, for subjects with diabetes and hypertension, diabetes and dyslipidemia, and hypertension and dyslipidemia. An increase in fasting insulin of 1 SD was associated with 88% higher odds of having a lower HF The pattern of associations was similar for LF and SDNN.

CONCLUSIONS These findings suggest that MMS disorders adversely affect cardiac autonomic control and a reduced cardiac autonomic control may contribute to the increased risk of subsequent cardiovascular events in individuals who exhibit MMS disorders.

  • Received April 20, 1998.
  • Revision received August 4, 1998.
  • Accepted August 4, 1998.
  • Copyright © 1998 by the American Diabetes Association

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Duanping Liao, Richard P Sloan, Wayne E Cascio, Aaron R Folsom, Angela D Liese, Gregory W Evans, Jianwen Cai, A Richey Sharrett
Diabetes Care Dec 1998, 21 (12) 2116-2122; DOI: 10.2337/diacare.21.12.2116

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Multiple Metabolic Syndrome Is Associated With Lower Heart Rate Variability: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study
Duanping Liao, Richard P Sloan, Wayne E Cascio, Aaron R Folsom, Angela D Liese, Gregory W Evans, Jianwen Cai, A Richey Sharrett
Diabetes Care Dec 1998, 21 (12) 2116-2122; DOI: 10.2337/diacare.21.12.2116
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