title: Effect of alpha- and selective beta-blockade for hypertension control on plasma lipoproteins, apoproteins, lipoprotein subclasses, and postprandial lipemia.
abstract: Fourteen male patients (mean age +/- SD, 52 +/- 11 years) with a history of hypertension (systolic blood pressure, 148 +/- 10 mm Hg; diastolic blood pressure, 99 +/- 2 mm Hg) were enrolled in a cross-over trial of prazosin and atenolol, with a minimum of eight weeks of treatment with each drug. Measures of lipoprotein metabolism included levels of: total plasma cholesterol, triglycerides, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and high-density lipoprotein2 cholesterol. Lipoprotein mass was measured by analytical ultracentrifugation in low-density to very low-density lipoprotein flotation rate intervals of 0 to 12, 12 to 20, and 20 to 400, and high-density lipoprotein flotation rate intervals of 0 to 3.5 and 3.5 to 9.0. Apolipoproteins A1 and B, postheparin lipoprotein and hepatic lipase activities, and magnitude of postprandial lipemia also were determined. Mass of intermediate-density lipoproteins (flotation rate, 12 to 20) was significantly lower (p = 0.05) following prazosin therapy compared with atenolol therapy. Other lipid parameters, including triglycerides and low- and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, were not significantly different for the two drug treatments.
authors.affiliation: Stanford Center for Research in Disease Prevention, Stanford University School of Medicine, California.
authors.forename: H R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Superko
authors.forename: P D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Wood
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Krauss
mesh_terms: D001059:Apoproteins / Q000097:blood*; D001262:Atenolol / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000187:drug effects; D002784:Cholesterol / Q000097:blood; D008076:Cholesterol, HDL / Q000097:blood; D008078:Cholesterol, LDL / Q000097:blood; D004435:Eating; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000097:blood* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology; D008055:Lipids / Q000097:blood*; D008074:Lipoproteins / Q000097:blood*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011224:Prazosin / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D014280:Triglycerides / Q000097:blood
chemical_list: D001059:Apoproteins; D008076:Cholesterol, HDL; D008078:Cholesterol, LDL; D008055:Lipids; D008074:Lipoproteins; D014280:Triglycerides; D001262:Atenolol; D002784:Cholesterol; D011224:Prazosin