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Evaluation of Polarographic Measurements of Basal Muscle Oxygen Tension in Type I Diabetic Patients

Abteilung Innere Medizin IV Medizinische Universitdtsklinik Otfried-Miiller-Str. 10 72076 Tiibingen Germany

Valerie Hofmann, MD

Norbert Benda, PhD

Dieter Luft, MD

Microcirculatory changes occur early in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) and are believed to be an early feature of late diabetic complications, leading to reduced oxygen pressure and hypoxia in the skin and other tissues. Whether muscle oxygen supply is also altered is unknown. Therefore, the authors analyzed polarographic measurements of muscle oxygen tension in 44 healthy type I diabetic patients (mean age 28 years; mean diabetes duration 7 years) and in 57 healthy controls, matched for age, sex, and body mass index, and the corresponding influencing factors. Two measurements were taken at rest 60 minutes apart in the anterior tibial muscle.

Muscle oxygen tensions did not differ between IDDM patients and controls (23.0 ±8.6 vs 25.3 ±9.0 mmHg) and were reproducible on repeated measurements (25.3 ±9.7 vs 25.5 ± 7.4 mmHg). Coefficients of variation were 13.5 ±10.8% in IDDM patients and 13.1 ±9.3% in controls. Compared with controls, in IDDM patients hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) and blood glucose concentrations were elevated, and arterial oxygen pressure was significantly lower. Muscle oxygen tensions were positively correlated with blood glucose concentrations in IDDM patients (Rho=0.48, P=0.002) but not with HbA1c or with insulin concentrations.

The authors conclude that the polarographic measurement of muscle oxygen tension is a reliable method with good reproducibility. Hypoxia in the anterior tibial muscle of type I diabetic patients can be excluded. In IDDM patients the level of muscle oxygen tension is correlated with the level of blood glucose concentration.

Angiology, Vol. 49, No. 3, 203-210 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/000331979804900306


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