Naderali E K, Williams G
Diabetes and Endocrinology Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Liverpool, Daulby Street, Liverpool L69 3GA, UK.
Eur J Clin Invest. 2001 Dec;31(12):1024-8. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2362.2001.00908.x.
Numerous studies have shown that long-term consumption of high-fat, high-energy diet results in obesity, which in turn, leads to cardiovascular disorders. However, there is little or no data on the acute effects of a highly palatable diet on vascular function.
In this study we aimed to evaluate the changes in metabolic and vascular reactivity in Wistar rats fed a palatable diet for 2 days.
Two-days feeding of rats with a palatable diet did not effect body weight, fat-pad mass or gastrocnemius muscles weights. Nor there were any changes in plasma glucose, insulin or leptin levels. However, compared with chow-fed rats, palatable diet-fed rats had significantly raised plasma free fatty acids and triglycerides levels (for both, P < 0.01). Compared with chow-fed animals, vasorelaxation responses to carbamylcholine and sodium nitroprusside were significantly attenuated in palatable diet-fed rats (for both, P < 0.01). However, there were no differences in histamine-induced vasorelaxation between chow-fed and palatable diet-fed rats.
These data indicates that diet-induced endothelium-dependent and -independent vascular dysfunction occurs long before obesity develops.
