Respiratory nitric oxide and pulmonary artery pressure in children of aymara and European ancestry at high altitude.

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ID Serval
serval:BIB_9AB0CA820176
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Titre
Respiratory nitric oxide and pulmonary artery pressure in children of aymara and European ancestry at high altitude.
Périodique
Chest
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Stuber T., Sartori C., Salmograven C.S., Hutter D., Thalmann S., Turini P., Jayet P.Y., Schwab M., Sartori-Cucchia C., Villena M., Scherrer U., Allemann Y.
ISSN
0012-3692
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2008
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
134
Numéro
5
Pages
996-1000
Langue
anglais
Résumé
Invasive studies suggest that healthy children living at high altitude display pulmonary hypertension, but the data to support this assumption are sparse. Nitric oxide (NO) synthesized by the respiratory epithelium regulates pulmonary artery pressure, and its synthesis was reported to be increased in Aymara high-altitude dwellers. We hypothesized that pulmonary artery pressure will be lower in Aymara children than in children of European ancestry at high altitude, and that this will be related to increased respiratory NO. We therefore compared pulmonary artery pressure and exhaled NO (a marker of respiratory epithelial NO synthesis) between large groups of healthy children of Aymara (n = 200; mean +/- SD age, 9.5 +/- 3.6 years) and European ancestry (n = 77) living at high altitude (3,600 to 4,000 m). We also studied a group of European children (n = 29) living at low altitude. The systolic right ventricular to right atrial pressure gradient in the Aymara children was normal, even though significantly higher than the gradient measured in European children at low altitude (22.5 +/- 6.1 mm Hg vs 17.7 +/- 3.1 mm Hg, p < 0.001). In children of European ancestry studied at high altitude, the pressure gradient was 33% higher than in the Aymara children (30.0 +/- 5.3 mm Hg vs 22.5 +/- 6.1 mm Hg, p < 0.0001). In contrast to what was expected, exhaled NO tended to be lower in Aymara children than in European children living at the same altitude (12.4 +/- 8.8 parts per billion [ppb] vs 16.1 +/- 11.1 ppb, p = 0.06) and was not related to pulmonary artery pressure in either group. Aymara children are protected from hypoxic pulmonary hypertension at high altitude. This protection does not appear to be related to increased respiratory NO synthesis.
Mots-clé
Adaptation, Physiological, Adolescent, Air/analysis, Altitude, Anoxia/complications, Anoxia/metabolism, Bolivia/epidemiology, Child, Child, Preschool, Europe/ethnology, Exhalation/physiology, Female, Humans, Hypertension, Pulmonary/ethnology, Hypertension, Pulmonary/etiology, Incidence, Infant, Male, Nitric Oxide/metabolism, Pulmonary Wedge Pressure/physiology, Risk Factors
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Web of science
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02/10/2009 17:40
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20/08/2019 15:01
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