Department of Geriatrics, Liangxiang Hospital of Beijing Fangshan District, Beijing, China.
National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Diseases, Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Medicine (Baltimore). 2023 Mar 3;102(9):e33161. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000033161.
Hypotension can occur in patients receiving levodopa (L-dopa) treatment for parkinsonism. However, only few studies have focused on the characteristics of orthostatic hypotension (OH) induced by the L-dopa challenge test (LCT). This study aimed to investigate the characteristics and influencing factors of LCT-induced OH in a relatively large sample of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD).
Seventy-eight patients with PD without a previous diagnosis of OH underwent the LCT. Blood pressure (BP) in the supine and standing positions was measured before and 2 hours after the LCT. If diagnosed with OH, the patients' BP was monitored again 3 hours after the LCT. The clinical features and demographics of the patients were analyzed.
Eight patients were diagnosed with OH 2 hours after the LCT (median dose of 375 mg L-dopa/benserazide; incidence = 10.3%). One patient without symptoms had OH 3 hours after the LCT. Compared with patients without OH, patients with OH had lower 1- and 3-minutes standing systolic BP and 1-minute standing diastolic BP at baseline and 2 hours after the LCT. Patients in the OH group were of older age (65.31 ± 4.17 years vs 59.74 ± 5.55years) and had lower Montreal Cognitive Assessment scores (17.5 vs 24) and higher L-dopa/benserazide levels (375 [250, 500] mg vs 250 [125, 500] mg). Older age markedly increased the odds of having LCT-induced OH (odds ratio, 1.451; 95% confidence interval, 1.055-1.995; P = .022).
LCT increased the odds of OH in non-OH PD, causing symptomatic OH in 10.3% of patients in our study, thereby raising safety concerns. Increase in age was observed to be a risk factor for LCT-induced OH in PD patients. A study with a larger sample size is warranted to confirm our results.
Clinical Trials Registry under ChiCTR2200055707.
January 16, 2022.
接受左旋多巴(L-dopa)治疗帕金森病的患者可能会出现低血压。然而,只有少数研究关注左旋多巴激发试验(LCT)引起的直立性低血压(OH)的特征。本研究旨在调查相对较大样本的帕金森病(PD)患者中 LCT 诱导的 OH 的特征和影响因素。
78 例无 OH 既往病史的 PD 患者接受 LCT。在 LCT 前后测量卧位和立位血压。如果诊断为 OH,则在 LCT 后 3 小时再次监测患者的血压。分析患者的临床特征和人口统计学资料。
8 例患者在 LCT 后 2 小时被诊断为 OH(L-dopa/培高利特中位数剂量 375mg;发生率=10.3%)。1 例无症状患者在 LCT 后 3 小时出现 OH。与无 OH 患者相比,OH 患者在基线和 LCT 后 2 小时的 1 分钟和 3 分钟立位收缩压以及 1 分钟立位舒张压均较低。OH 组患者年龄较大(65.31±4.17 岁 vs. 59.74±5.55 岁),蒙特利尔认知评估量表评分较低(17.5 分 vs. 24 分),L-dopa/培高利特水平较高(375[250,500]mg vs. 250[125,500]mg)。年龄较大显著增加了 LCT 诱导 OH 的几率(比值比,1.451;95%置信区间,1.055-1.995;P=0.022)。
LCT 增加了非 OH PD 发生 OH 的几率,导致本研究中 10.3%的患者出现症状性 OH,从而引发安全性担忧。年龄增加被观察到是 PD 患者 LCT 诱导 OH 的危险因素。需要更大样本量的研究来证实我们的结果。
中国临床试验注册中心,ChiCTR2200055707。
2022 年 1 月 16 日。