Why the study?
Does antihypertensive drug therapy improve short-term heart rate variability in patients with newly diagnosed essential hypertension?
Does antihypertensive drug therapy improve short-term heart rate variability in patients with newly diagnosed essential hypertension?
In newly diagnosed essential hypertension, combination therapy with amlodipine and atenolol increases short-term heart rate variability, suggesting an increase in vagal modulation.
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May enhance vagal tone assessment in new hypertension; hypothesis-generating and should not change practice without RCTs.
Pavithran et al. (2009) studied this question.