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Does intravenous propranolol modify the hemodynamic response to static muscular exercise in young patients with borderline arterial hypertension?
Does intravenous propranolol modify the hemodynamic response to static muscular exercise in young patients with borderline arterial hypertension?
Intravenous propranolol does not significantly modify the hemodynamic response to static exercise in young patients with borderline hypertension, suggesting no abnormal acute circulatory regulation or neurogenic hyperreactivity.
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Does not support beta-blockade to blunt static exercise hemodynamics in borderline hypertension; leaves open neurogenic mechanisms in other settings.
Young patients with borderline arterial hypertension respond to static muscular exercise with elevations of the brachial artery blood pressure, heart rate, and cardiac output, which are of similar magnitude as in normotensive control subjects. Intravenous propranolol did not abolish or significantly modify these responses. There is no indication of neurogenic hyperreactivity in borderline hypertension, and the acute regulation of the circulation is not abnormal.
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