In men with diabetes and heart failure, exenatide increased cardiac index compared with placebo.
In plain wordsIn men with diabetes and heart failure, exenatide increased cardiac index compared with placebo.
- Peptide
- Exenatide (exendin-4)
- Outcome
- IncreaseCardiac index
- Study
n = 20
- Comparator
- Placebo
- Analysis
- Primary
- Outcome group
- Heart function · Cardiovascular
- Studied dose
- 0.12 pmol/kg/min · intravenous · 6 hAs given in this study (human).
Measurements
- Cardiac index change
- 0.4 l min(-1) m(-2)
- exenatide, 3 h
- Cardiac index change
- 23%
- exenatide, 3 h
- Cardiac index change
- 0.33 l min(-1) m(-2)
- exenatide, 6 h
- Cardiac index change
- 17%
- exenatide, 6 h
- Cardiac index change
- −0.02 l min(-1) m(-2)
- placebo, 3 h
- Cardiac index change
- −1%
- placebo, 3 h
- Cardiac index change
- −0.08 l min(-1) m(-2)
- placebo, 6 h
- Cardiac index change
- −5%
- placebo, 6 h
Source sentences
CI increased at 3 and 6 h by 0.4 ± 0.1 (23%) and 0.33 ± 0.1 (17%) l min(-1) m(-2), during exenatide infusion vs -0.02 ± 0.1 (-1%) and -0.08 ± 0.1 (-5%) l min(-1) m(-2) during placebo (p = 0.003);
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
Out of 237 patients screened, 20 male type 2 diabetic patients participated in this crossover trial design and were allocated (sequentially numbered) to i.v. infusions during two consecutive days with (1) exenatide (0.12 pmol/kg/min); and (2) placebo for 6 h followed by a washout period for 18 h, at…