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Cupisti A, Bruno RM, Puntoni A, Varricchio E, Giglio E, Meniconi O, Zullo C, Barsotti M, Egidi MF, Ghiadoni L. Blood pressure phenotype reproducibility in CKD outpatients: a clinical practice report. Intern Emerg Med 2020; 15:87-93. [PMID: 31209681 DOI: 10.1007/s11739-019-02127-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2019] [Accepted: 06/06/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
Out-of-office blood pressure (BP) measurement is encouraged by recent hypertension guidelines for assessing BP phenotypes. These showed acceptable reproducibility in the short term, but few data exist about long-term reproducibility, particularly for chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients. We evaluated changes of the BP phenotypes at 6 and 12 months in 280 consecutive non-dialysis CKD outpatients (186 males, age 71 ± 12 years, eGFR 38 ± 13 ml/min/1.73), without any change in drug therapy. Elevated BP is defined as office BP > 140/90 and home BP > 135/85 mmHg for defining the following BP phenotypes: sustained uncontrolled hypertension (SUCH); white-coat uncontrolled hypertension (WUCH); masked uncontrolled hypertension (MUCH); and controlled hypertension (CH). At baseline, the prevalence of the phenotypes was SUCH 36.6%, CH 30.1%, WUCH 25.4% and MUCH 7.9%, and it was similar at 6 months and 12 months. On the other hand, individual phenotype reproducibility at 12 months was poor both overall (38.0%) and across the different phenotypes (SUCH 53.9%, WUCH 32.4% and CH 32.1%, MUCH 9.1%). Patients who were not maintaining the same phenotype (non-concordant) were not distinguished by age, sex, BMI, eGFR, presence of diabetes or cardiovascular disease, or pharmacological therapy. When reproducibility of BP phenotypes both at 6 months and at 12 months was assessed, it was very low (19.6%), particularly for MUCH (0%), CH (14%) and WUCH (15.5%), while it was 31% for SUCH. In a CKD cohort, the overall prevalence of the different BP phenotypes defined by office and home BP remains constant over time. However, only 38% of patients maintained the same phenotype at 12 months, suggesting a poor reproducibility over time for the BP phenotypes.
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Affiliation(s)
- Adamasco Cupisti
- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, via Roma 67, 56126, Pisa, Italy.
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, via Roma 67, 56126, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, via Roma 67, 56126, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, via Roma 67, 56126, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, via Roma 67, 56126, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, via Roma 67, 56126, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, via Roma 67, 56126, Pisa, Italy
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- Nephrology, Transplants and Dialysis Unity, Pisa University Hospital, via Paradisa, 56126, Pisa, Italy
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- Nephrology, Transplants and Dialysis Unity, Pisa University Hospital, via Paradisa, 56126, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, via Roma 67, 56126, Pisa, Italy
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The enzyme phosphoglycerate kinase from yeast possesses two tryptophan residues whose phosphorescence spectrum in low-temperature glasses is resolved into two distinct components with 0-0 vibronic bands centered at 408 and 412.5 nm. The thermal profile of the phosphorescence intensity and lifetime shows that the red (longer wavelength) component is quenched in fluid solutions so that the long-lived phosphorescence observed at ambient temperature in buffer is due entirely to the blue (shorter wavelength) component. The remarkable heterogeneity in flexibility of the two chromophores' sites inferred from the thermal behaviour, when analyzed in terms of the crystallographic structure, allows to make a straightforward assignment of the long-lived emission to internal Trp-333. Because in buffer the phosphorescence is due to only one Trp residue the biphasic nature of the decay reveals the presence of stable, slowly interconverting, conformers with profound differences in the internal fluidity of the C-domain. Further, according to the triplet lifetime, complex formation with substrates affect the protein structure in a very selective way. Thus, while 3-phosphoglycerate has practically no influence on the average lifetime, Mg ATP and Mg ADP increases tau by a factor of 1.9 and 5.3, respectively. The change in lifetime implies a remarkable stiffening of the C-domain which is partly relaxed in ternary complexes with 3-phosphoglycerate. These findings are discussed in terms of ligand-induced "closed" conformations of the protein.
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- P Cioni
- C.N.R.-Istituto di Biofisica, Pisa, Italy
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Strambini GB, Cioni P, Puntoni A. Relationship between the conformation of glutamate dehydrogenase, the state of association of its subunit, and catalytic function. Biochemistry 1989; 28:3808-14. [PMID: 2751997 DOI: 10.1021/bi00435a028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The fluorescence and phosphorescence properties of the tryptophan residues in glutamate dehydrogenase were utilized to probe the conformation of the macromolecule at various states of aggregation of its subunits (hexamer, trimer, and monomer) in guanidine hydrochloride. According to the phosphorescence lifetime no gross alteration in the conformation of the protein follows from complete dissociation of the hexamer into native monomer, implying that the native fold is stabilized exclusively by intrasubunit bonding. Although modest concentrations of denaturant induce a change in configuration in the enzyme, a comparison with the macromolecule cross-linked into the hexameric form by glutaraldehyde confirms that this alteration in structure is not the result of subunit dissociation. Inhibition of catalysis by the denaturant is found to be considerably smaller than anticipated from the extent of hexamer dissociation. Furthermore, this inhibition is in no way prevented by cross-linking the enzyme in its hexameric form. This finding together with the ability of the trimer to bind the coenzyme and to undergo the characteristic structural changes induced by the effectors ADP and GTP suggests that, contrary to what is generally believed, the smallest functional unit of glutamate dehydrogenase is not the hexameric form.
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