CLINICAL STUDIES
Association of chronotropic incompetence with echocardiographic ischemia and prognosis
Michael S. Lauer, MD, FACC*  ,
Rajendra Mehta, MD*,
Fredric J. Pashkow, MD, FACC*,
Peter M. Okin, MD, FACC ,
Kamthorn Lee, MD* and
Thomas H. Marwick, MD, PhD, FACC*
* Department of Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
George M. and Linda H. Kaufman Center for Heart Failure, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Department of Cardiology, the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
Manuscript received March 19, 1998;
revised manuscript received June 15, 1998,
accepted July 2, 1998.
Address for correspondence: Dr. Michael S. Lauer, The George M. and Linda H. Kaufman Center for Heart Failure, Department of Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Desk F-25, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44195
lauerm{at}cesmtp.ccf.org
Objectives. This study sought to examine the prognostic importance of chronotropic incompetence among patients referred for stress echocardiography.
Background. Although chronotropic incompetence has been shown to be predictive of an adverse prognosis, it is not clear if this association is independent of exercise-induced myocardial ischemia.
Methods. Consecutive patients (146 men and 85 women; mean age 57 years) who were not taking beta-adrenergic blocking agents and were referred for symptom-limited exercise echocardiography were followed for a mean of 41 months. Chronotropic incompetence was assessed in two ways: (1) failure to achieve 85% of the age-predicted maximum heart rate and (2) a low chronotropic index, a heart rate response measure that accounts for effects of age, resting heart rate and physical fitness.
Results. The primary end point, a composite of death, nonfatal myocardial infarction, unstable angina and late (>3 months after the exercise test) myocardial revascularization, occurred in 41 patients. Failure to achieve 85% of the age-predicted maximum heart rate was predictive of events (relative risk [RR] 2.47, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.28 to 4.79, p = 0.007); similarly, a low chronotropic index was predictive (RR 2.44, 95% CI 1.31 to 4.55, p = 0.005). Even after adjusting for myocardial ischemia and other possible confounders, failure to achieve 85% of age-predicted maximum heart rate was predictive (adjusted RR 2.20, 95% CI 1.11 to 4.37, p = 0.02). A low chronotropic index also remained predictive (adjusted RR 1.85, 95% CI 0.98 to 3.47, p = 0.06).
Conclusions. Chronotropic incompetence is predictive of an adverse cardiovascular prognosis even after adjusting for echocardiographic myocardial ischemia.
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Abbreviations and Acronyms
| | CI | = confidence interval | | HRR | = heart rate reserve | | LV | = left ventricular | | MET | = metabolic equivalent | | MR | = metabolic reserve | | NYHA | = New York Heart Association | | OR | = odds ratio | | RR | = relative risk |
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