Differential effects of nebivolol versus metoprolol on functional sympatholysis in hypertensive humans.
Differential effects of nebivolol versus metoprolol on functional sympatholysis in hypertensive humans.
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10.1161/hypertensionaha.113.01302
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2013-06
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Vongpatanasin W
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Price A;Raheja P;Wang Z;Arbique D;Adams-Huet B;Mitchell JH;Victor RG;Thomas GD;Vongpatanasin W
In young healthy humans, sympathetic vasoconstriction is markedly blunted during exercise to optimize blood flow to the metabolically active muscle. This phenomenon known as functional sympatholysis is impaired in hypertensive humans and rats by angiotensin II-dependent mechanisms involving oxidative stress and inactivation of nitric oxide (NO). Nebivolol is a β1−adrenergic receptor blocker that has NO-dependent vasodilatory and antioxidant properties. We therefore asked if nebivolol would restore functional sympatholysis in hypertensive humans. In 21 subjects with stage I hypertension, we measured muscle oxygenation and forearm blood flow (FBF) responses to reflex increases in sympathetic nerve activity (SNA) evoked by lower body negative pressure (LBNP) at rest and during rhythmic handgrip exercise at baseline, after 12 weeks of nebivolol (5–20 mg/day), or metoprolol (100–300 mg/day), using a double-blind crossover design. We found that nebivolol had no effect on LBNP-induced decreases in oxygenation and FBF in resting forearm (from −29±5 to −30±5% and from −29±3 to −29±3%, respectively; p=NS). However, nebivolol attenuated the LBNP-induced reduction in oxygenation and FBF in exercising forearm (from −14±4% to −1±5% and from −15 ±2% to −6±2%, respectively, both p < 0.05). This effect of nebivolol on oxygenation and FBF in exercising forearm was not observed with metoprolol in the same subjects despite a similar reduction in BP. Nebivolol had no effect on SNA at rest or during handgrip, suggesting a direct effect on vascular function. Thus, our data demonstrate that nebivolol restored functional sympatholysis in hypertensive humans by a mechanism that does not involve β1-adrenergic receptors.