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Effects of celiprolol on plasma renin, aldosterone, norepinephrine and epinephrine in primary hypertension.

Celiprolol is a newly developed cardioselective beta-blocking agent with mild beta 2-agonist and weak alpha 2-antagonist properties. To evaluate the acute (2.5 hours) and chronic (2 weeks) effects of celiprolol (400 mg once a day) on plasma renin, aldosterone, norepinephrine and epinephrine, 20 patients with mild to moderate primary hypertension were studied in a double-blind placebo-controlled crossover trial. Two and one-half hours after the first dose of both placebo and celiprolol, supine and standing measurements of blood pressure showed a significant reduction, whereas plasma norepinephrine increases were comparable with baseline values. Placebo and celiprolol produced similar changes on supine blood pressure and plasma norepinephrine. In 9 patients celiprolol decreased plasma renin (from a mean +/- standard deviation of 1.09 +/- 0.35 to 0.77 +/- 0.52 ng/ml/hr, p less than 0.05) and aldosterone (from 9.2 +/- 3.7 to 6.7 +/- 3.9 ng/dl, p less than 0.05) acutely both supine and standing, but placebo did not change these parameters. Celiprolol increased pulse rate supine (but not standing) as compared with baseline values. After 2 weeks of celiprolol therapy, blood pressure was decreased both supine and standing compared with placebo in 18 patients (140 +/- 18/88 +/- 8 vs 149 +/- 18/94 +/- 7, 136 +/- 18/91 +/- 6 vs 142 +/- 20/97 +/- 9 mm Hg, respectively, each p less than 0.05), without a change of pulse rate when supine and with a reduction when standing. There were no significant changes of plasma renin, aldosterone, norepinephrine and epinephrine levels during chronic therapy compared with placebo.[1]

References

  1. Effects of celiprolol on plasma renin, aldosterone, norepinephrine and epinephrine in primary hypertension. Kimura, S., DeQuattro, V., Hernandez, P.H., Lee, D.D. Am. J. Cardiol. (1988) [Pubmed]
 
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