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Journal of Applied Physiology
Vol. 81, No. 5, pp. 1978-1986, November 1996
EXERCISE AND MUSCLE

Ventilatory response to exercise in diabetic subjects with autonomic neuropathy

C. Tantucci, P. Bottini, M. L. Dottorini, E. Puxeddu, G. Casucci, L. Scionti, and C. A. Sorbini

Clinica di Semeiotica Metodologia Medica, University of Ancona, Ospedale Regionale Torrette, Ancona 60020; and Istituto di Medicina Interna e Scienze Endocrine e Metaboliche, University of Perugia, Perugia 06100, Italy

Received 30 March 1995; accepted in final form 10 January 1996.

Tantucci, C., P. Bottini, M. L. Dottorini, E. Puxeddu, G. Casucci, L. Scionti, and C. A. Sorbini. Ventilatory response to exercise in diabetic subjects with autonomic neuropathy. J. Appl. Physiol. 81(5): 1978-1986, 1996.---We have used diabetic autonomic neuropathy as a model of chronic pulmonary denervation to study the ventilatory response to incremental exercise in 20 diabetic subjects, 10 with (Dan+) and 10 without (Dan-) autonomic dysfunction, and in 10 normal control subjects. Although both Dan+ and Dan- subjects achieved lower O2 consumption and CO2 production (VCO2) than control subjects at peak of exercise, they attained similar values of either minute ventilation (VE) or adjusted ventilation (VE/maximal voluntary ventilation). The increment of respiratory rate with increasing adjusted ventilation was much higher in Dan+ than in Dan- and control subjects (P < 0.05). The slope of the linear VE/VCO2 relationship was 0.032 ± 0.002, 0.027 ± 0.001 (P < 0.05), and 0.025 ± 0.001 (P < 0.001) ml/min in Dan+, Dan-, and control subjects, respectively. Both neuromuscular and ventilatory outputs in relation to increasing VCO2 were progressively higher in Dan+ than in Dan- and control subjects. At peak of exercise, end-tidal PCO2 was much lower in Dan+ (35.9 ± 1.6 Torr) than in Dan- (42.1 ± 1.7 Torr; P < 0.02) and control (42.1 ± 0.9 Torr; P < 0.005) subjects. We conclude that pulmonary autonomic denervation affects ventilatory response to stressful exercise by excessively increasing respiratory rate and alveolar ventilation. Reduced neural inhibitory modulation from sympathetic pulmonary afferents and/or increased chemosensitivity may be responsible for the higher inspiratory output.

diabetes; pulmonary denervation; control of breathing; breathing pattern

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