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EFFECTS OF DIETARY CREATINE SUPPLEMENTATION ON SYSTEMIC MICROVASCULAR DENSITY AND REACTIVITY IN HEALTHY YOUNG ADULTS
Intra-vital video-microscopy
Capillary recruitment
Post-occlusive reactive hyperemia
Affilliation
Ministério da Saúde. Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia. Rio de janeiro, RJ, Brasil / Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Investigação Cardiovascular. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil / Universidade Estácio de Sá. Escola de Educação Física e Ciências do Esporte. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Ministério da Saúde. Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia. Rio de janeiro, RJ, Brasil / Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Investigação Cardiovascular. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Ministério da Saúde. Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia. Rio de janeiro, RJ, Brasil / Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Investigação Cardiovascular. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Ministério da Saúde. Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia. Rio de janeiro, RJ, Brasil / Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Investigação Cardiovascular. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Ministério da Saúde. Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia. Rio de janeiro, RJ, Brasil / Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Investigação Cardiovascular. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Ministério da Saúde. Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia. Rio de janeiro, RJ, Brasil / Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Investigação Cardiovascular. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Ministério da Saúde. Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia. Rio de janeiro, RJ, Brasil / Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Investigação Cardiovascular. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Abstract
Background: Dietary creatine supplementation (CrS) is a practice commonly adopted by physically active
individuals. However, the effects of CrS on systemic microvascular reactivity and density have never been reported.
Additionally, CrS is able to influence blood levels of homocysteine, resulting in presumed effects on vascular
endothelial function. Thus, we investigated the effects of CrS on the systemic microcirculation and on
homocysteine levels in healthy young individuals.
Methods: This open-label study was performed on a group of 40 healthy male, moderately physically active subjects
aged 27.7 ± 13.4 years who received one week of CrS at a dose of 20 g/day of commercially available micronized
creatine monohydrate. Laser speckle contrast imaging was used in the evaluation of cutaneous microvascular
reactivity, and intra-vital video microscopy was used to evaluate skin capillary density and reactivity, before and
after CrS.
Results: CrS did not alter plasma levels of homocysteine, although CrS increased creatinine (p = 0.0001) and decreased
uric acid (p = 0.0004) plasma levels. Significant changes in total cholesterol (p = 0.0486) and LDL-cholesterol (p = 0.0027)
were also observed along with a reduction in plasma levels of T3 (p=0.0074) and an increase in T4 levels (p = 0.0003). Skin
functional capillary density (p = 0.0496) and capillary recruitment during post-occlusive reactive hyperemia (p = 0.0043)
increased after CrS. Increases in cutaneous microvascular vasodilation induced by post-occlusive reactive
hyperemia (p = 0.0078) were also observed.
Conclusions: Oral supplementation with creatine in healthy, moderately physically active young adults improves
systemic endothelial-dependent microvascular reactivity and increases skin capillary density and recruitment.
These effects are not concurrent with changes in plasma homocysteine levels.
Keywords
Laser speckle contrast imagingIntra-vital video-microscopy
Capillary recruitment
Post-occlusive reactive hyperemia
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