Abstract
Impaired endothelium-dependent vascular relaxation has been reported in patients with high cholesterol (HC), but the systemic effects of elevated cholesterol on blood pressure (BP) and BP reactivity to stress have not been studied. We examined the BP response to a standard mental arithmetic test (MAT) in 37 healthy, normotensive HC subjects and 33 normal cholesterol controls (NC). Both groups had similar age, body mass index, and gender distribution. HC had slightly higher systolic BP at baseline (122 v 118 mm Hg, P < .05) than NC and systolic BP response during MAT was significantly higher in HC compared to NC (18 +/- 8 v 10 +/- 5 mm Hg, P < .05). Maximal changes in systolic BP were significantly correlated with cholesterol (R = 0.41, P < .001), whereas heart rate and diastolic BP changes were unrelated to serum cholesterol. To confirm that BP reactivity was dependent on cholesterol, MAT was repeated after treatment with 20 mg/day of lovastatin, a hepatic hydroxymethyl glutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitor, for 6 weeks using a cross-over design in 26 HC subjects. Lovastatin significantly altered lipid profiles (-26% total cholesterol, +8% HDL, -34% LDL). A small decrease in systolic BP at baseline (-3 mm Hg, P = NS...Continue Reading
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