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Correlation between the levels of serum cystatin C and substance P in peripheral blood in diabetes mellitus patients complicated with hypertension

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    • Wei Zhu
    • Xuelian Gong
    • Chao Luo
    • Jing Lu
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  • Published online on: June 11, 2018     https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2018.6285
  • Pages: 1159-1164
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Abstract

Correlation between the serum cystatin C and substance P in peripheral blood of diabetes mellitus patients complicated with hypertension was investigated. Diabetes mellitus patients with or without hypertension were selected in No. 215 Hospital of Shaanxi Nuclear Industry from December 2015 to February 2017. There were 60 patients with only hypertension (hypertension control group), 60 patients with only diabetes mellitus (diabetes mellitus control group) and 60 patients with diabetes mellitus combined with hypertension (observation group). Levels of serum cystatin C and substance P in peripheral blood were measured via immunoturbidimetry and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, respectively, and the correlation with hypertension was analyzed. The average level of serum cystatin C in the observation group was higher than that of the two control groups (P<0.05). The level of substance P in peripheral blood of the observation group was lower than that of the diabetic control group (P<0.05). The levels of serum cystatin C in patients with grade Ⅲ hypertension in observation group were higher than those in grades II and I, and the levels of substance P in peripheral blood of patients with grade Ⅲ hypertension in observation group were lower than those in grades II and I. Systolic pressure of patients in observation group was significantly positively correlated with level of serum cystatin C, but significantly negatively correlated with level of substance P in peripheral blood (P<0.05). Compared with the diabetes mellitus patients, level of serum cystatin C was higher, and level of substance P peripheral blood was lower in diabetes mellitus patients complicated with hypertension. In diabetes mellitus patients, blood pressure was positively correlated with serum cystatin C level, and negatively correlated with substance P level in peripheral blood.

Introduction

Increases in blood pressure are always accompanied with the elevated risks in cardiovascular diseases, such as myocardial infarction, heart failure and stroke. Aging of population in China increases the risk of hypertension and its cardiovascular (1). In diabetes mellitus (DM) patients, risk of cardiovascular complications, coronary artery disease (CAD), cerebral stroke and peripheral arterial diseases are two to four times higher than that in people without DM (2,3). DM is always accompanied with hypertension, and, thus, DM patients complicated with hypertension usually suffer from an increased risk of cardiovascular complications (4). Corresponding studies have reported that during the follow-up period of DM patients without cardiovascular diseases, the risk of cardiovascular diseases is almost equivalent to non-DM patients with history of cardiovascular diseases (5,6). Serum cystatin C is a kind of kidney-secreted enzyme that is widely distributed in the body, and can reflect the filtrating function of glomerulus (7). Diabetes and hypertension often affect kidneys. However, there is no report on the serum levels of cystatin C in patients with diabetes mellitus combined with hypertension. We hypothesized that serum cystatin C may have some predictive value in detecting renal damage in patients with hypertension or diabetes without clinical renal impairments (proteinuria and renal insufficiency), whereas those with diabetes mellitus combined with hypertension are more likely to have renal damage in the early stage, and serum cystatin C levels may be higher in these patients than in patients with only diabetes. Substance P refers to a kind of neuropeptide widely distributed in fine nerve fibers. When the nerve is stimulated, substance P can be released through the central end and peripheral end, and bind to neurokinin-1 receptor (NK1) to exert the physiological function. Peripheral neuropathy is one of the common complications of DM. There is usually an increase in substance P in patients with diabetes mellitus combined peripheral neuropathy. However, there is no report on the effect of hypertension on substance P in patients with diabetes mellitus. In order to measure the concentration of serum cystatin C and substance P in peripheral blood of DM patients with hypertension, DM patients, hypertension patients and DM patients with hypertension were selected from December 2015 to February 2017. There were 60 patients with only DM (control group), 60 patients with only hypertension (control group) and 60 DM patients with hypertension (observation group). We measured levels of serum cystatin C and substance P in peripheral blood of all the patients.

Patients and methods

General data of patients

DM patients with or without hypertension who were admitted to No. 215 Hospital of Shaanxi Nuclear Industry (Xianyang, China) between December 2015 and February 2017 were enrolled in this study. Inclusion criteria: i) Patients aged between 40 and 80 years; ii) patients met the Diagnostic Criteria of Diabetes Mellitus (2010 edition, American Diabetes Association): i) glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) ≥6.5%; ii) fasting plasma glucose (FPG) ≥7.0 mmol/l (patients fasted for 8 h); iii) 2 h plasma glucose in oral glucose tolerance test ≥11.1 mmol/l; iv) random blood sugar ≥11.1 mmol/l for patients with the typical symptoms or crisis of high glucose; c) patients whose systolic pressure reached or exceeded 21.3 kPa (160 mmHg) and diastolic pressure reached or exceeded 12.7 kPa (95 mmHg). Hypertension classification was based on the 1999 WHO/ISH guidelines for the treatment of hypertension (8). Exclusion criteria: a) patients with type I DM; b) patients complicated with renal insufficiency, hematuresis or proteinuria; c) patients complicated with severe infections; d) patients complicated with tumors. Among these patients, we selected 60 DM patients complicated with hypertension as observation group. Those patients included 26 males and 35 females and the age ranged from 46 to 80 years, with an average of 65.3±5.6 years. For hypertension grading, there were 16 with hypertension of grade I, 18 of grade II and 26 of grade III. Sixty patients with simple diabetes (28 males and 32 females, aged 48–82 years, mean age 66.2±5.2 years and simple hypertension in 60 patients (30 males and 30 females, aged 44–79 years, mean age 65.8±6.1 years as the control group in this study. There were 28 males and 32 females, and the age ranged from 48–82 years with an average of 66.2±5.2 years. No statistical significance was found in comparisons of age and sex among groups. This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Baoji Central Hospital (Baoji, China), and all the patients or their family signed the informed consent.

Detection of serum cystatin C

Fasting venous (3 ml) blood was extracted from each patient in the morning to detect serum cystatin C by particle reinforcement particle-enhanced turbidimetric immunoassay (PETIA) using Olympus AU 2700 automatic biochemical analyzer (Ningbo Purebio Biotechnology Co., Ltd., Ningbo, China) in accordance with the instructions of kit and apparatus.

Detection of substance P level in peripheral blood

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was performed using an ELISA kit (R&D Systems, Inc., Minneapolis, MN, USA) to detect substance P in peripheral blood of each patient in strict accordance with the instruction of the kit. Elbow venous blood (3 ml) was collected, followed by centrifugation at 2,500 × g at 4°C for 15 min, and the separated plasma was stored at −70°C before use. OD values at 492 nm were detected to calculate the content of substance P in peripheral blood.

Statistical analysis

SPSS 22.0 (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA) software was used. All measurement data were expressed as mean ± standard deviation, and independent sample t-test. Comparison between groups was done using one-way ANOVA test followed by post hoc test (Least Significant Difference). Enumeration data were expressed as No. (case) or percentage, and Chi-square test was performed for intergroup comparisons. Spearman's correlation analysis was adopted for correlation analyses. P<0.05 was considered to indicate a statistically significant difference.

Results

Comparison of the levels of serum cystatin C and substance P in peripheral blood of patients in three groups

There was no significant difference in serum cystatin C and peripheral blood substance P levels between diabetes control group and hypertension control group. Average level of serum cystatin C was significantly higher in observation group than in the two control groups. The level of substance P in peripheral blood in the observation group was lower than that in the diabetic control group (P<0.05), but there was no difference between the observation group and the hypertension control group (P>0.05). Average levels of serum cystatin C and substance P in peripheral blood of observation group were 1.18±0.53 mg/l and 112.65±28.37 ng/l, respectively, and those in diabetes control group were 1.04±0.48 mg/l and 145.28±27.06 ng/l, respectively. Significant differences were found between two groups (t=2.185, t=1.028, P<0.05) (Table I).

Table I.

Comparison of the levels of serum cystatin C and substance P in peripheral blood of patients in two groups (mean ± SD).

Table I.

Comparison of the levels of serum cystatin C and substance P in peripheral blood of patients in two groups (mean ± SD).

GroupsNo.Serum cystatin C (mg/l)Substance P in peripheral blood (ng/l)
Observation601.18±0.53112.65±28.37
Diabetes control601.04±0.48145.28±27.06
Hypertension control600.98±0.38113.08±27.13
at value 2.1851.028
bt value 2.0620.978
aP value <0.05<0.05
bP value <0.05>0.05

a t

b P<0.05 vs. diabetes control group, b and bP<0.05 vs. hypertension control group. SD, standard deviation.

Comparison of the levels of serum cystatin C and substance P in peripheral blood in patients with different grades of hypertension in observation group

There was no statistically significant difference between the distributions of patients with grade I, II and III hypertension in the hypertension-only control and the observation groups (P>0.05). In observation group, level of serum cystatin C was significantly higher, while substance P level in peripheral blood was significantly lower in patients with grade III hypertension than those in the patients with grade I or II hypertension (P<0.05). Comparisons of the serum cystatin C level and substance P level in peripheral blood between patients with grade I and II hypertension showed no statistical significance (P>0.05). In control group, serum levels of cystatin C in patients with level III hypertension were significantly higher than those in patients with level II and I, while no significant difference was found between level II and I in serum levels of cystatin C and levels of substance P in peripheral blood (P>0.05). No significant differences were found between patients in observation group and control group with the same level of hypertension (P>0.05) (Tables II and III).

Table II.

Comparison of serum cystatin C levels between patients in observation group and hypertension-only control group with different levels of hypertension (mean ± SD).

Table II.

Comparison of serum cystatin C levels between patients in observation group and hypertension-only control group with different levels of hypertension (mean ± SD).

Observation Hypertension-only control


LevelsCasesSerum cystatin C (mg/l)CasesSerum cystatin C (mg/l)P-value
III281.24±0.34261.38±0.64>0.05
II17   1.11±0.54a18   1.17±0.51b>0.05
I15   1.01±0.44a16   1.06±0.43b>0.05
F-value 8.889 9.024
P-value <0.05 <0.05

a In observation group, serum levels of cystatin C in patients with level III hypertension were significantly higher than those in patients with level II and I

b In hypertension-only control, serum levels of cystatin C in patients with level III hypertension were significantly higher than those in patients with level II and I.

Table III.

Comparison of levels of P substance in peripheral blood between patients in observation group and hypertension-only control with different levels of hypertension (mean ± SD).

Table III.

Comparison of levels of P substance in peripheral blood between patients in observation group and hypertension-only control with different levels of hypertension (mean ± SD).

Observation Hypertension-only control


LevelsCasesP substance in peripheral blood (ng/l)CasesP substance in peripheral blood (ng/l)P-value
III28102.93±26.6726100.43±25.67>0.05
II17   117.28±27.95a18   112.25±26.91b>0.05
I15   125.57±29.31a16   126.57±27.31b>0.05
F value 10.326 11.453
P-value <0.05 <0.05

a In observation group, levels of P substance in peripheral blood in patients with level III hypertension were significantly lower than those in patients with level II and I

b In hypertension-only control, levels of P substance in peripheral blood in patients with level III hypertension were significantly lower than those in patients with level II and I.

Correlation of the systolic pressure with the levels of serum cystatin C and substance P in peripheral blood of patients in the observation group

Correlation analysis showed that systolic pressure of patients in the observation group was significantly positively correlated with level of serum cystatin C (r=0.437, P<0.05), but significantly negatively correlated with the level of substance P in peripheral blood (r= −0405, P<0.05) (Fig. 1).

Discussion

Type II DM is a kind of metabolic disease with chronic hyperglycemia, in which insufficient secretion of insulin or insulin-resistance leads to the metabolic disturbance of nutrients, such as glucose, fat and protein. Long-term hyperglycemia and metabolic disturbance usually result in damage to multiple organs, including eyes, kidney, nerve, heart and vessels (9,10). However, in DM patients, the risk of cardiovascular complications is equivalent to that of patients with CAD, and, thus, similar treatment methods should be adopted to improve the prognosis of cardiovascular diseases (11,12). DM is usually accompanied with hypertension, which is a key risk factor for cardiovascular complications in DM patients (13,14). Previous studies reported that approximately 20–60% of DM patients were also suffering hypertension, and 25–50% of hypertension patients were combined with DM, and patients with DM and hypertension were usually more susceptible to the cardiovascular diseases (15,16). Rodrigues et al reported that in DM patients complicated with hypertension, risk of cardiovascular complications was almost twice of that in people without DM or hypertension (17). In this study, we compared the levels of serum cystatin C and substance P in peripheral blood between the DM patients and DM patients combined with hypertension for the first time, and our results suggested the clinical significance of serum cystatin C and substance P levels in DM and hypertension.

Serum cystatin C, also known as γ-trace protein, is a cysteine proteinase inhibitor widely distributed in tissues and body fluid (18). Cystatin C in blood can only be filtrated and eradicated by glomerulus, and, thus, can indicate the changes in glomerular filtration rate (GFR) (19). Previous studies have shown that serum cystatin C is conducive to the evaluation of GFR, and can increase the detection rate of renal function damage in early stage of DM (2022). Patients complicated with renal insufficiency, hematuresis or proteinuria were excluded from this study, and we found that average level of serum cystatin C in DM patients with hypertension was significantly higher than that in control group, suggesting that serum cystatin C has a significant predictive value for hypertension. Furthermore, we found that serum level of cystatin C was higher in DM patients with grade III hypertension than in patients with grade I or II, indicating that serum cystatin C level is correlated with hypertension. Silva-E-Oliveira et al (23) found that level of serum cystatin C is correlated with the flow-mediated vasodilation. Bhavsar et al (24) also found that serum cystatin C in patients with pregnancy-induced hypertension syndrome was significantly higher than that in normal control group. Compared with the patients with only DM, level of serum cystatin C in DM patients complicated with hypertension was significantly increased, suggesting that those patients were more susceptible to renal damage and refractory hypertension.

As a kind of brain-gut peptide, substance P is not only the neurotransmitter or neuromodulator, but also a kind of key chemokine in modulating the immune system and endocrine system (25). Menzies et al (26) found that complications of DM, such as CAD, neuropathic pain or gastrointestinal dysfunction, were correlated with content of substance P in peripheral blood. Grover et al (27) also reported that in type II DM patients, content of substance P level in plasma was significantly lower than that in healthy people, and a much lower level was found in the DM patients combined with gastroesophageal reflux. Iwasaki et al (28) found that in DM patients, decrease in substance P level in peripheral blood may be associated with the onset of diabetes gastroparesis. In addition, decreased level of substance P in peripheral blood contributes to the significant increase in cytokines secreted by immune competent cells and improvement in bone metabolism. In this study, compared with DM patients, substance P level in peripheral blood in DM patients combined with hypertension was significantly reduced, which in turn affect the major organs of patients, including heart and lungs. Correlation analysis also revealed that systolic pressure of DM patients complicated with hypertension was significantly negatively correlated with substance P level in peripheral blood (P<0.05). Thus, compared with DM patients, substance P level in peripheral blood was relatively lower, and blood pressure was negatively correlated with the substance P level in peripheral blood of DM patients complicated with hypertension.

In conclusion, we detected the levels of serum cystatin C and substance P in peripheral blood of DM patients complicated with hypertension, and found that content of serum cystatin C was relatively high and level of substance P in peripheral blood was relatively low in DM patients with hypertension, and blood pressure was positively correlated with the serum cystatin C level and negatively correlated with the substance P level in peripheral blood in these patients. Our findings provided references for further investigations on the mechanism.

Acknowledgements

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Funding

No funding was received.

Availability of data and materials

The datasets used and/or analyzed during the present study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

Authors' contributions

WZ conceived and designed the study, and drafted the manuscript. XG, CL and JL collected, analyzed and interpreted the patient data, and revised the manuscript critically for important intellectual content. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

Ethics approval and consent to participate

The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Baoji Central Hospital (Baoji, China). Signed informed consents were obtained from the patients or the guardians.

Patient consent for publication

Not applicable.

Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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