Abnormally High Plasma Catecholamines at Rest and during Exercise in Ketotic Juvenile Diabetics

Abstract

Plasma catecholammes were measured, employing a sensitive and precise radioenzymatic assay, in 5 young males and in two juvenile diabetics during ketosis as well as after a period of insulin treatment. Plasma cate cholamines were twice as high at rest, and the increase during exercise was approximately 8 times higher in the ketotic diabetics compared to controls.

Key Words:

• Blood pressure
• catechol-o-methyl-transferase
• exercise
• insulin
• juvenile diabetics
• plasma catecholamines
• pulse rate