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Trial reportCardiovascular drugs and therapy1993

Sympathetic activation after two weeks of nifedipine treatment in primary Raynaud's patients and controls.

J Leppert, H Nilsson, U Myrdal, L Edvinsson, T Hedner, I Ringqvist

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Trial report in Cardiovascular drugs and therapy, 1993. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Calcium channel blockers for primary and secondary Raynaud's phenomenon.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017
    Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Attenuation of contractile responses to sympathetic co-transmitters in veins from subjects with essential hypertension.Clinical autonomic research : official journal of the Clinical Autonomic Research Society · 1997
    Article
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

J LeppertDepartment of Research, IAMU, University of Uppsala, Central Hospital, Västerås, Sweden.
H Nilsson
U Myrdal
L Edvinsson
T Hedner
I Ringqvist
Uppsala University Hospital · SELund University · SEUniversity of Gothenburg · SE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The effect of a standardized cold pressor test on circulating noradrenaline and neuropeptide-Y-like immunoreactivity was investigated in 12 women with primary Raynaud's phenomenon and 12 healthy female controls before and after 2 weeks of treatment with the calcium antagonist, nifedipine. Measurement before treatment showed significant increase during the cold pressor test on circulating noradrenaline in both the primary Raynaud's phenomenon group and in the control group (from 0.29 +/- 0.15 ng/ml to 0.33 +/- 0.16 ng/ml, p < 0.05, and from 0.21 +/- 0.14 ng/ml to 0.29 +/- 0.16 ng/ml, p < 0.005, respectively). However, treatment with nifedipine resulted in significantly increased levels of circulating noradrenaline during the cold pressor test only in the control group (from 0.43 +/- 0.21 ng/ml to 0.50 +/- 0.20 ng/ml, p < 0.01). Plasma concentrations of neuropeptide-Y-like immunoreactivity were unchanged by the standardized cold pressor test, whether performed before or during nifedipine treatment in both groups. Nifedipine treatment per se significantly increased circulating noradrenaline in both the primary Raynaud's phenomenon patient group and in the control group (from 0.29 +/- 0.15 to 0.49 +/- 0.13 and 0.21 +/- 0.14 to 0.43 +/- 0.21 ng/ml, respectively, p < 0.001). Similarly, the circulating neuropeptide-Y-like immunoreactivity significantly increased in both the primary Raynaud's phenomenon group and in the control group (from 105 +/- 21 to 137 +/- 19 pmol/l and 107 +/- 17 to 147 +/- 13 pmol/l, respectively, p < 0.001).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

Indexed as

Administration, OralAdultBlood PressureBlood Pressure DeterminationCold TemperatureDrug Administration ScheduleFemaleHumansMiddle AgedNeuropeptide YNifedipineNorepinephrineRaynaud DiseaseSympathetic Nervous SystemNeuropeptide YNifedipineNorepinephrine

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PMID8011569
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