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Assessment of Heart Rate Response to Exercise and Recovery During Treadmill Testing in Arsenic-exposed Workers

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Date 2017 Mar 2
PMID 28247524
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Background: Arsenic exposure is associated with various cardiovascular diseases. The aim of the present study was to assess cardiac autonomic function via heart rate response to exercise and recovery period of treadmill testing in arsenic-exposed workers.

Methods: Sixty-five (65) occupationally arsenic-exposed workers and 35 healthy controls were enrolled. Blood and urinary arsenic levels were analyzed and symptom limited maximal treadmill exercise test were performed. Chronotropic response to exercise including age-predicted maximal heart rate (APMHR), heart rate reserve (HR ), age-predicted HR (APHR ) and adjusted HR and 1st-, 2nd-and 3rd-min heart rate recovery (HRR) indices were calculated.

Results: Baseline clinical and echocardiographic parameters, exercise test duration, resting and maximal heart rate, peak exercise capacity, HR , APMHR, APHR , and adjusted HR were found to be similar between groups. HRR (22.0 ± 4.3 vs. 24.3 ± 3.1 bpm, p = .003) and HRR (43.2 ± 6.2 vs. 46.7 ± 6.4 bpm, p = .012) were significantly lower in arsenic-exposed workers compared to controls. Blood and urinary arsenic levels negatively correlated with HRR (r = -.477, p < .001 and r = -.438, p < .001, respectively) and HRR (r = -.507, p < .001 and r = -.412, p < .001 respectively).

Conclusions: Arsenic-exposed workers had lower HRR indices than normal subjects but chronotropic response were similar. Cardiac autonomic dysregulation may be one of the cardiovascular consequences of arsenic exposure.

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