TY - JOUR
T1 - Atenolol exposure and risk for development of adverse metabolic effects
T2 - A pilot study
AU - Navare, Hrishikesh A.
AU - Frye, Reginald F.
AU - Cooper-DeHoff, Rhonda M.
AU - Shuster, Jonathan J.
AU - Hall, Karen
AU - Schmidt, Siegfried O.F.
AU - Turner, Stephen T.
AU - Johnson, Julie A.
PY - 2010/9
Y1 - 2010/9
N2 - Study Objective. To evaluate whether the level of systemic exposure to atenolol explains observed interindividual differences in adverse metabolic responses. Design. Open-label, prospective, pharmacokinetic pilot substudy of the Pharmacogenomic Evaluation of Antihypertensive Responses (PEAR) study. Setting. General clinical research center. Patients. Fifteen hypertensive adults (mean age 46 ± 8.9 yrs) who were enrolled in the PEAR study. Intervention. Patients received atenolol therapy for at least 8 weeks, with 5 of those weeks at a dosage of 100 mg/day, and then underwent a 2-hour oral glucose tolerance test during a pharmacokinetic study visit. Measurements and Main Results. Twenty-hour plasma atenolol concentrations were measured during the pharmacokinetic visit. Glucose and insulin levels were measured during the 2-hour oral glucose tolerance test, and fasting plasma lipid, glucose, and insulin levels were measured at baseline and after 8 weeks of atenolol treatment. A significant association was noted between atenolol area under the concentration-time curve (AUC) and change in fasting glucose level when adjusted for covariates (p=0.0025); the effect was strongest in women. No significant relationship was noted between plasma atenolol concentration and glucose AUC during oral glucose tolerance testing (r=0.08, p=0.78), nor between atenolol AUC and change in triglyceride levels (r=0.13, p=0.63). Conclusion. Higher plasma atenolol exposure may be a risk factor for an increase in fasting plasma glucose level during atenolol treatment. These findings require confirmation in a larger sample.
AB - Study Objective. To evaluate whether the level of systemic exposure to atenolol explains observed interindividual differences in adverse metabolic responses. Design. Open-label, prospective, pharmacokinetic pilot substudy of the Pharmacogenomic Evaluation of Antihypertensive Responses (PEAR) study. Setting. General clinical research center. Patients. Fifteen hypertensive adults (mean age 46 ± 8.9 yrs) who were enrolled in the PEAR study. Intervention. Patients received atenolol therapy for at least 8 weeks, with 5 of those weeks at a dosage of 100 mg/day, and then underwent a 2-hour oral glucose tolerance test during a pharmacokinetic study visit. Measurements and Main Results. Twenty-hour plasma atenolol concentrations were measured during the pharmacokinetic visit. Glucose and insulin levels were measured during the 2-hour oral glucose tolerance test, and fasting plasma lipid, glucose, and insulin levels were measured at baseline and after 8 weeks of atenolol treatment. A significant association was noted between atenolol area under the concentration-time curve (AUC) and change in fasting glucose level when adjusted for covariates (p=0.0025); the effect was strongest in women. No significant relationship was noted between plasma atenolol concentration and glucose AUC during oral glucose tolerance testing (r=0.08, p=0.78), nor between atenolol AUC and change in triglyceride levels (r=0.13, p=0.63). Conclusion. Higher plasma atenolol exposure may be a risk factor for an increase in fasting plasma glucose level during atenolol treatment. These findings require confirmation in a larger sample.
KW - Adverse metabolic effect
KW - Atenolol
KW - Glucose
KW - Hypertension
KW - OGTT
KW - Oral glucose tolerance test
KW - Plasma lipid levels
KW - β-blockers
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U2 - 10.1592/phco.30.9.872
DO - 10.1592/phco.30.9.872
M3 - Article
C2 - 20795842
AN - SCOPUS:77956134044
SN - 0277-0008
VL - 30
SP - 872
EP - 878
JO - Pharmacotherapy
JF - Pharmacotherapy
IS - 9
ER -