Ischaemic heart disease, skeletal muscle fibres and exercise capacity.
Twenty-eight male patients with ischaemic heart disease (IHD) performed OBLA (onset of blood lactate accumulation) exercise stress tests and had muscle biopsies taken from their vastus lateralis muscle the day before coronary bypass grafting. All 28 patients showed the same exercise performance pattern as compared to healthy sedentary, age-matched, controls: a low exercise intensity eliciting a blood lactate concentration of 2.0 mmol x l-1 (WOBLA), WOBLA corresponded to a high fraction (% WOBLA) of WSL (symptom limited or 'maximal' capacity), and a low peak blood lactate concentration. The high % WOBLA and low peak blood lactate indicated a reduced glycogenolytic capacity ('anaerobic' performance). Muscle fibre composition disclosed a high mean value of fast twitch (FT), type II or 'white' muscle fibres, as compared to sedentary healthy controls. This indicated that this patient group constituted an extreme subgroup of the age-matched population. The distorted muscle fibre composition in IHD could reflect both heredity as well as adaptation to physical inactivity, degenerative cytosolic properties, etc. Muscle and blood contents of a mitochondrial electron translocator and nonspecific radical scavenger, ubiquinone or coenzyme Q10(CoQ10), were low, which coincided with an elevated frequency of the fibre subgroup FT(c). The presence of the FT(c) fibre type is assumed to reflect histological trauma.[1]References
- Ischaemic heart disease, skeletal muscle fibres and exercise capacity. Karlsson, J., Diamant, B., Folkers, K., Aström, H., Gunnes, S., Liska, J., Semb, B. Eur. Heart J. (1992) [Pubmed]
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