Comparison of enalapril versus nifedipine to decrease left ventricular hypertrophy in systemic hypertension (the PRESERVE trial). Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The PRESERVE (Prospective Randomized Enalapril Study Evaluating Regression of Ventricular Enlargement) study is designed to provide a definitive test of the ability of enalapril to achieve greater left ventricular (LV) mass reduction than nifedipine GITs (gastrointestinal treatment system) by a degree that would be prognostically meaningful on a population basis (10 g/m2). To achieve this goal, an ethnically diverse population of 480 men and women with essential hypertension and increased LV mass of screening echocardiography will be enrolled at clinical centers on 4 continents and studied by echocardiography at baseline and after 6 and 12 months' randomized therapy. Blinded readings of echocardiograms at a central laboratory will provide systematic information about treatment effects on LV structure, wall motion, and Doppler blood flow. The study power is at least 90% to test the primary hypotheses that enalapril will induce greater normalization of LV mass and diastolic filling than nifedipine. After the 1-year echocardiographic trial, the study population will be followed 3 more years to test the hypothesis that a reduction in LV mass, independent of blood pressure lowering, is associated with a reduction in the risk of morbid and fatal cardiovascular events.

publication date

  • July 1, 1996

Research

keywords

  • Antihypertensive Agents
  • Enalapril
  • Hypertension
  • Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular
  • Nifedipine

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0030200916

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/s0002-9149(96)00228-7

PubMed ID

  • 8712120

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 78

issue

  • 1