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- Title
Analysis of therapeutic effect and safety of target-dose metoprolol in the treatment of patients with diabetes mellitus with chronic heart failure.
- Authors
Xuyang Liu; Chengfu Zhong; Pengtai Zhao; Zhihua Zhang; Ning Jia; Sheng'ou Su; Benliang Zou; Yuming Song
- Abstract
Objective: To explore the therapeutic effect and safety of target-dose metoprolol in treating chronic heart failure (CHF) patients complicated with diabetes mellitus (DM). Methods: One hundred and fifty-four elderly patients were randomly divided into an observation group and a control group (n=77), which were treated with target-dose metoprolol and conventional therapy, and routinely treated respectively. The New York Heart Association (NYHA) classification, left ventricular end-systolic diameter (LVESD), left ventricular end-diastolic diameter (LVEDD), left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), 6-min walking distance and medication safety of the two groups were compared. Results: Compared with the results before treatment, the NYHA classification, LVESD, LVEDD, LVEF and 6-minutes walking distance of both groups were significantly improved (P < 0.05), with significantly better results in the observation group than those in the control group after treatment (P < 0.05). In the 6 months of follow-up, the incidence of cardiac events in the observation group (3.90%) was significantly lower than that of the control group (14.29%) (P < 0.05). The levels of average fasting blood sugar and glycosylated hemoglobin in the groups showed no significant differences (P > 0.05). Conclusion: Treating CHF patients complicated with DM with target-dose metoprolol can obviously boost the cardiac function and exercise tolerance, leading to satisfactory clinical therapeutic effect, high security and moderate tolerance.
- Subjects
METOPROLOL; DIABETES complications; HEART failure treatment; DRUG dosage; CLINICAL drug trials; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences, 2014, Vol 30, Issue 1, p7
- ISSN
1682-024X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12669/pjms.301.3908