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Abstract #3358

Patients with type 1 diabetes and albuminuria have reduced cerebral grey matter unrelated to cerebrovascular dysfunction.

Mark Bitsch Vestergaard1, Jens Christian Laursen2, Niels Søndergaard Heinrich2, Peter Rossing2, Tine Willum Hansen2, and Henrik Bo Wiberg Larsson1
1Clinic for Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Rigshospitalet, Glostrup, Denmark, 2Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, Herlev, Denmark

Synopsis

Keywords: Gray Matter, Diabetes, Cerebrovascular functionPatients with diabetes mellitus type 1 (T1D) demonstrate brain alterations including gray matter (GM) atrophy. We examined whether a GM reduction could be related to cerebrovascular dysfunction. GM volume was measured by anatomical MRI. Cerebrovascular function was examined by measuring cerebral blood flow, oxygen metabolism and lactate concentration in response to inhalation of hypoxic air using phase-contrast MRI and MRS. T1D patients were evaluated for albuminuria as indication of vessel damages. Patients with T1D and albuminuria had reduced GM compared to patients with normal kidney function or healthy controls, however, the GM atrophy could not be related to cerebrovascular dysfunction.

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