The correlation between endothelial dysfunction and the risk of coronary heart disease is well known through previous studies. The degradation of the function of nitric oxide acting on the endothelium of blood vessels is mainly explained by reduction of synthesis, loss due to oxidative stress, and decreased sensitivity to vascular dilatation action. In particular, patients with high blood pressure have been known to have impaired vascular endothelial function through animal experiments and several clinical studies, mainly due to increased biomechanical friction in the blood vessels and decreased biological availability of nitric oxide, which in turn causes incongruity in the production of nitric monoxide and changes in normal vascular dilatation. There have also been reports recently that early diagnosis and treatment may improve endothelial dysfunction and prevent the progression of coronary artery disease. However, the reality is that the drugs available in vasospastic angina patients with endothelial dysfunction are very limited. Until recently, beta-blockers were reported to inhibit vascular dilatation of adrenaline stimuli, a drug corresponding to relative contraindications in vasospastic angina patients, with one study reporting that propranolol cannot, but rather exacerbates, vasospastic angina. However, a series of reports on the vascular dilatation of the recently developed third-generation beta-blockers have reinvented the role of beta-blockers in vasospastic angina, especially nebivolol (selective, continuous beta-blockers) is known to act on β-1 adrenaline receptor blockings and endothelium to create vascular dilatation, and also to stimulate β-3 adrenaline receptors to cause nitric oxide generation and antioxidant effects in the endothelium of blood vessels. Therefore, this clinical trial seeks to find whether nebivolol will inhibit vascular contraction in hypertensive patients and will work in angiospastic angina patients.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
51
Korea University Anam Hospital
Seoul, South Korea
Changes in coronary spasm
The descriptive statistics (mean subject number, standard deviation, median value, minimum value, and maximum value) of changes in the baseline and 12-week outcomes will be presented for each treatment group, and the comparison between the three groups for ANOVA or ANOVA Kruskal-Wallis test. Changes in each group will be analyzed using Paired t-test or Wilcoxon signed rank test. An ANCOVA analysis will be performed when there are more influencing factors.
Time frame: Baseline to 12 weeks
Changes in Quality of Life
Changes in Quality of Life based on Seattle Angina Questionnaire
Time frame: Baseline to 12 weeks
Changes in mean sitting systolic blood pressure and mean sitting diastolic blood pressure
Changes in mean sitting systolic blood pressure and mean sitting diastolic blood pressure
Time frame: Baseline to 6, 12 weeks
Percentage of target blood pressure reached
Percentage of target blood pressure reached from baseline to 6, 12 weeks
Time frame: Baseline to 6, 12 weeks
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