PMID: 9538308Apr 16, 1998Paper

Lipophilic versus hydrophilic beta(1) blockers and the cardiac sympatho-vagal balance during stress and daily activity in patients after acute myocardial infarction

Heart
A KardosB Casadei

Abstract

To compare the effects of a lipophilic and a hydrophilic beta(1) blocker on cardiac sympatho-vagal balance during daytime activity and stress in patients four to six weeks after myocardial infarction. Randomised, double blind, crossover study comparing the effect of atenolol (50 mg once daily) with metoprolol CR (100 mg once daily) with treatment periods of four weeks. Large teaching hospital. 50 patients (45 male, 5 female, age range 40 to 75 years), four to six weeks after an acute myocardial infarction. At the end of each treatment period the 24 hour heart rate variability, heart rate variability power spectra during head up tilt and mental stress, baroreflex sensitivity, and exercise performance were evaluated. During daytime activity and during orthostatic and mental stress, both heart rate and the ratio between the low and high frequency spectral components of the heart rate variability were significantly lower with atenolol. Conversely, there was no difference between treatments in baroreflex sensitivity and resting plasma catecholamines. Exercise duration and peak oxygen consumption did not differ between treatments, but the heart rate during submaximal and peak exercise was significantly lower with atenolol. At the dos...Continue Reading

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Nov 18, 2010·Scandinavian Cardiovascular Journal : SCJ·Bengt ÅbladJan M Lundberg
May 3, 2001·Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology : the Official Journal of the International Society for Holter and Noninvasive Electrocardiology, Inc·D Aronson, A J Burger
Aug 15, 2012·Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia·Robert B SchonbergerMatthew M Burg
May 18, 2001·American Journal of Physiology. Heart and Circulatory Physiology·J A TaylorD L Eckberg

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