TY - JOUR
T1 - Prognostic performance of heart rate recovery on an exercise test in a primary prevention population
AU - Sydó, Nóra
AU - Sydó, Tibor
AU - Gonzalez Carta, Karina A.
AU - Hussain, Nasir
AU - Farooq, Shausha
AU - Murphy, Joseph G.
AU - Merkely, Béla
AU - Lopez-Jimenez, Francisco
AU - Allison, Thomas G.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 The Authors.
PY - 2018/4/1
Y1 - 2018/4/1
N2 - Background--Heart rate (HR) recovery has been investigated in specific patient cohorts, but there is less information about the role of HR recovery in general populations. We investigated whether HR recovery has long-term prognostic significance in primary prevention. Methods and Results--Exercise tests performed between 1993 and 2010 on patients aged 30 to 79 years without cardiovascular disease were included. Mortality was determined from Mayo Clinic records and Minnesota Death Index. Total, cardiovascular, and non-cardiovascular mortality was reported according to HR recovery < 13 bpm using Cox regression. 19 551 patients were included, 6756 women (35%), age 51±10 years. There were 1271 deaths over follow-up of 12±5 years. HR recovery declined after age 60, and was also lower according to diabetes mellitus, hypertension, obesity, current smoking, and poor cardiorespiratory fitness but not sex or β-blockers. Adjusting for these factors, abnormal HR recovery was a significant predictor of total (hazard ratio [95% confidence interval]=1.56 [1.384-1.77]), cardiovascular (1.95 [1.57-2.42]), and non-cardiovascular death (1.41 [1.22-1.64]). Hazard ratios for cardiovascular death according to abnormal HR recovery were significant in all age groups (30-59, 60-69, 70- 79), in both sexes, in patients with and without hypertension, obesity, and diabetes mellitus, but not in patients taking β-blockers, current smokers, and patients with normal cardiorespiratory fitness. Conclusions--HR recovery is a powerful prognostic factor predicting total, cardiovascular, and non-cardiovascular death in a primary prevention cohort. It performs consistently well according to sex, age, obesity, hypertension, and diabetes mellitus but shows diminished utility in patients taking β-blockers, current smokers, and patients with normal cardiorespiratory fitness.
AB - Background--Heart rate (HR) recovery has been investigated in specific patient cohorts, but there is less information about the role of HR recovery in general populations. We investigated whether HR recovery has long-term prognostic significance in primary prevention. Methods and Results--Exercise tests performed between 1993 and 2010 on patients aged 30 to 79 years without cardiovascular disease were included. Mortality was determined from Mayo Clinic records and Minnesota Death Index. Total, cardiovascular, and non-cardiovascular mortality was reported according to HR recovery < 13 bpm using Cox regression. 19 551 patients were included, 6756 women (35%), age 51±10 years. There were 1271 deaths over follow-up of 12±5 years. HR recovery declined after age 60, and was also lower according to diabetes mellitus, hypertension, obesity, current smoking, and poor cardiorespiratory fitness but not sex or β-blockers. Adjusting for these factors, abnormal HR recovery was a significant predictor of total (hazard ratio [95% confidence interval]=1.56 [1.384-1.77]), cardiovascular (1.95 [1.57-2.42]), and non-cardiovascular death (1.41 [1.22-1.64]). Hazard ratios for cardiovascular death according to abnormal HR recovery were significant in all age groups (30-59, 60-69, 70- 79), in both sexes, in patients with and without hypertension, obesity, and diabetes mellitus, but not in patients taking β-blockers, current smokers, and patients with normal cardiorespiratory fitness. Conclusions--HR recovery is a powerful prognostic factor predicting total, cardiovascular, and non-cardiovascular death in a primary prevention cohort. It performs consistently well according to sex, age, obesity, hypertension, and diabetes mellitus but shows diminished utility in patients taking β-blockers, current smokers, and patients with normal cardiorespiratory fitness.
KW - Exercise testing
KW - Heart rate recovery
KW - Mortality
KW - Primary prevention
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U2 - 10.1161/JAHA.117.008143
DO - 10.1161/JAHA.117.008143
M3 - Article
C2 - 29581219
AN - SCOPUS:85044849129
SN - 2047-9980
VL - 7
JO - Journal of the American Heart Association
JF - Journal of the American Heart Association
IS - 7
M1 - e008143
ER -