Hypertension, Microvascular Pathology, and Prognosis After an Acute Myocardial Infarction

  • David Carrick
  • , Caroline Haig
  • , Annette M. Maznyczka
  • , Jaclyn Carberry
  • , Kenneth Mangion
  • , Nadeem Ahmed
  • , Vannesa Teng Yue May
  • , Margaret McEntegart
  • , Mark C. Petrie
  • , Hany Eteiba
  • , Mitchell Lindsay
  • , Stuart Hood
  • , Stuart Watkins
  • , Andrew Davie
  • , Ahmed Mahrous
  • , Ify Mordi
  • , Ian Ford
  • , Aleksandra Radjenovic
  • , Paul Welsh
  • , Naveed Sattar
  • Kirsty Wetherall, Keith G. Oldroyd, Colin Berry

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    Abstract

    The rationale for our study was to investigate the pathophysiology of microvascular injury in patients with acute ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction in relation to a history of hypertension. We undertook a cohort study using invasive and noninvasive measures of microvascular injury, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging at 2 days and 6 months, and assessed health outcomes in the longer term. Three hundred twenty-four patients with acute myocardial infarction (mean age, 59 [12] years; blood pressure, 135 [25] / 79 [14] mm Hg; 237 [73%] male, 105 [32%] with antecedent hypertension) were prospectively enrolled during emergency percutaneous coronary intervention. Compared with patients without antecedent hypertension, patients with hypertension were older (63 [12] years versus 57 [11] years; P<0.001) and a lower proportion were cigarette smokers (52 [50%] versus 144 [66%]; P=0.007). Coronary blood flow, microvascular resistance within the culprit artery, infarct pathologies, inflammation (C-reactive protein and interleukin-6) were not associated with hypertension. Compared with patients without antecedent hypertension, patients with hypertension had less improvement in left ventricular ejection fraction at 6 months from baseline (5.3 [8.2]% versus 7.4 [7.6]%; P=0.040). Antecedent hypertension was a multivariable associate of incident myocardial hemorrhage 2-day post-MI (1.81 [0.98-3.34]; P=0.059) and all-cause death or heart failure (n=47 events, n=24 with hypertension; 2.53 [1.28-4.98]; P=0.007) postdischarge (median follow-up 4 years). Severe progressive microvascular injury is implicated in the pathophysiology and prognosis of patients with a history of hypertension and acute myocardial infarction. Clinical Trial Registration- URL: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov . Unique identifier: NCT02072850.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)720-730
    Number of pages11
    JournalHypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979)
    Volume72
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Sept 2018

    Keywords

    • atherosclerosis
    • hypertension
    • myocardial infarction
    • prognosis
    • reperfusion injury

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Internal Medicine

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