High heart rate: More than a risk factor. Lessons from a clinical practice survey

被引:7
作者
Barrios, Vivencio [1 ]
Escobar, Carlos [2 ]
Bertomeu, Vicente [3 ]
Murga, Nekane [4 ]
de Pablo, Carmen [1 ]
Asin, Enrique [1 ]
机构
[1] Hosp Ramon & Cajal, Dept Cardiol, E-28034 Madrid, Spain
[2] Hosp Infanta Sofia, Madrid, Spain
[3] Hosp Univ San Juan, Alicante, Spain
[4] Hosp Basurto, Bilbao, Spain
关键词
Heart rate; Hypertension; Chronic ischemic heart disease; DISEASE; CORONARY;
D O I
10.1016/j.ijcard.2008.05.045
中图分类号
R5 [内科学];
学科分类号
1002 ; 100201 ;
摘要
Several epidemiological studies have reported that an elevated heart rate (HR) is associated with coronary atherosclerosis independently of other risk factors. Nevertheless, it is still unclear whether HR is itself the cause or there is merely an association between HR and mortality in this population. A total of 1686 patients with hypertension and chronic ischemic heart disease were included in this study. According to the resting HR, the patients were distributed in 3 groups (group 1: HR <63 bpm; group 2: 63=82 bpm; group 3: >82 bpm). 580 patients (34.4%) belonged to group 1; 936 (55.5%) to group 2 and 170 (10.1%) to group 3. Patients with high HR exhibited a poorer prognosis not only due to a worse clinical profile (more concomitant cardiovascular risk factors and organ damage), but suggestively because despite the use of a similar number of drugs, patients with higher HR were associated with lesser risk control rates in daily clinical practice. Despite current guidelines that do not still recognize HR as a cardiovascular risk factor, it appears that physicians should pay more attention to it in clinical practice since high HR is warning about an increased risk. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:292 / 294
页数:4
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