Background: Preliminary data suggest that target organ damage (TOD) and early vascular aging (EVA) may occur in children with normal blood pressure (BP). Objectives: To analyze TOD and EVA in normotensive (BP <95th percentile on ambulatory BP monitoring) type 1 diabetes children (T1D) in comparison to healthy controls (C). Subjects: 25 T1D aged 13.9 ± 2.6 years and 22 C aged 14.0 ± 3.4 years. Methods: We analyzed age- and height-related pulse wave velocity (PWV) Z-scores and expected PWV based on age, height, and mean arterial pressure (MAP). Expected vascular age based on measured PWV was calculated from pooled pediatric and adult PWV norms. Left ventricular mass index (LVMI), estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), and urinary albumin/creatinine ratio (ACR) were obtained as markers of TOD. Results: T1D and C groups did not differ in anthropometry, ambulatory, LVMI, and ACR. However, median age- and height-related PWV Z-scores were higher in T1D compared to C (1.08 vs. 0.57, p = 0.006; 0.78 vs. 0.36, p = 0.02, respectively). Mean (±SD) difference between measured and expected PWV was 0.58 ± 0.57 in T1D vs. 0.22 ± 0.59 in C, p = 0.02. The mean (±SD) difference between chronological and expected vascular age was 7.53 ± 7.74 years in T1D vs. 2.78 ± 7.01 years in C, p = 0.04. Conclusion: Increased arterial stiffness and increased intraindividual differences between expected and measured PWV as well as between chronological and expected vascular age indicate that EVA may develop in T1D children even at normal ambulatory BP levels.

2nd Medical Faculty Charles University Prague Czechia

Centre of Excellence IT4Innovations Institute for Research and Applications of Fuzzy Modeling University of Ostrava Ostrava Czechia

Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario University of Ottawa Ottawa ON Canada

Department of Pediatrics Dr von Hauner Children's Hospital Ludwig Maximillians University Munich Germany

Department of Pediatrics University Hospital Motol Prague Czechia

Department of Pediatrics University Hospital Ostrava Ostrava Czechia

Medical Faculty University of Ostrava Ostrava Czechia

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