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Trial reportDiabetes2020

Effect of Intensive Glycemic and Blood Pressure Control on QT Prolongation in Diabetes: The ACCORD Trial.

Matthew J Singleton, Elsayed Z Soliman, Alain G Bertoni, S Patrick Whalen, Prashant D Bhave, Joseph Yeboah

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Trial report in Diabetes, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Matthew J SingletonSection of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC mjsingle@wakehealth.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-7266-0951
Elsayed Z SolimanSection of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC.ORCID 0000-0001-5632-8150
Alain G BertoniDepartment of Epidemiology and Prevention, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC.
S Patrick WhalenSection of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC.
Prashant D BhaveSection of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC.
Joseph YeboahSection of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC.ORCID 0000-0001-6274-5882
Wake Forest University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Compared with standard glycemic control, intensive glycemic control caused increased mortality in the Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes (ACCORD) trial. Preliminary data from several studies suggest that intensive glycemic control is associated with QT prolongation, which may lead to ventricular arrhythmias as a possible explanation of this increased mortality. We sought to assess the effects of intensive glycemic control and intensive blood pressure control on the risk of incident QT prolongation. Cox proportional hazards models were used to compare the risk of incident QT prolongation (>460 ms in women or >450 ms in men) in the intensive versus standard glycemic control arms. Over a combined 48,634 person-years of follow-up (mean 4.9), 634 participants (6.4%) developed a prolonged QTc. Participants in the intensive glycemic control arm did not have an increased risk of QT prolongation. Similarly, a strategy of intensive blood pressure control did not result in a significant change in risk of prolonged QTc. Sensitivity analyses using alternative QT correction formulas (Hodges and Bazett) yielded overall similar findings. In conclusion, the increased mortality observed in the intensive glycemic control arm in the ACCORD trial is not likely to be explained by QT prolongation leading to lethal ventricular arrhythmias.

Indexed as

Arrhythmias, CardiacBlood GlucoseBlood PressureHeart RateHumansLong QT SyndromeProportional Hazards ModelsBlood Glucose

Identifiers

PMID32732305
PMCPMC7809716
OpenAlexW3046092445

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