Content of Some Pro- and Anti-inflammatory Factors, Insulin Resistance Parameters in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Cardiovascular Autonomic Neuropathy, Influence of Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids on These Parameters

Introduction. Cardiac autonomic neuropathy (CAN) is a serious complication of diabetes mellitus (DM), that is strongly associated with increased risk of cardiovascular mortality. The pathogenetic treatment of CAN include lifestyle modification, intensive glycemic control, treatment of dyslipoproteinemia (DLP), correction of metabolic abnormalities in the myocardium, thrombosis prevention, prescription of α-lipoic acid, aldose reductase inhibitors; γ-linoleic acid, acetyl-L-carnitine, antioxidants, long-chain ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (ω-3 PUFAs), vasodilators, vitamin B1 and some other substances. The aim of the study was to investigate the content of some pro- and anti-inflammatory factors, insulin resistance parameters in patients with T2DM and CAN, influence of ω-3 PUFAs on these parameters. Materials and methods. The study involved 48 patients with T2DM (16 women, 32 men, patients were aged between 50-59 years), among them: 1) 12 patients with T2DM without CAN; 2) 36 (aged 50-59 years, disease duration 1-6 years, glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) level (7,1 ± 0,6) %) – with functional CAN stage. Control group – 15 healthy people of median age (51,9 ± 3,2) years. The concentration of glucose, immunoreactive insulin (IRI), high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP), tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), interleukin (IL)-6, IL-8 and IL-10 in the blood were determinate; insulin resistance index (HOMA-IR) and TNF-α/IL-10 ratio were calculated. Patients with T2DM and functional stage of CAN were divided into 2 groups: patients of 1nd group (n = 21) received one capsule/day of the ω-3 PUFAs in addition to standard treatment, each one gram capsule of the ω-3 PUFA contains approximately 465 mg of eicosapentaenoic and 375 mg of docosahexaenoic acid and 4,0 g of tocopferol acetate; patients of 2nd group (n = 15) received standard glucose lowering therapy (control group). The duration of the study was 3 months. Results. According to the results of our study there can be seen the increase of IRI, HOMA-IR levels are accompanied with increase of hsCRP, TNF-α, IL-6, IL-8 and IL-10 (compared to the control). The development of func- tional stage of CAN was accompanied with statistically significant increase of IRI, hsCRP, TNF-α, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10 and TNF-α/IL-10 levels (compared to patients with T2DM without CAN). Obtained results could witness about the violation of cytokines dysbalance, development of compensative type of cytokine dysbalance. Conclusions. Obtained results could witness, that prescription of ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids leads to decrease of the proinflammatory immune response activity and allows to consider ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids as a promising medicine in the treatment of cardiac autonomic neuropathy in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.