Effects of therapy with nifedipine GITS or atenolol on mental stress-induced ischemic left ventricular dysfunction
Thomas C. Andrews, MD, FACC*,
John D. Parker, MD, FACC
,
Sue Jacobs, PhD
,
Richard Friedman, PhD
,
Nancy Cummings, RN||,
Gail MacCallum, BS¶,
Finn Mannting, MD# **,
Geoffrey H. Tofler, MD, FACC** 
,
William Carlson, MD, FACC¶ **,
James E. Muller, MD, FACC
and
Peter H. Stone, MD, FACC¶ **
* Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiology Division, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
Division of Cardiology, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Department of Counseling, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA
Department of Psychiatry, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
|| Department of Surgery, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
¶ Cardiovascular Division/Department of Medicine, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Boston, USA
# Department of Nuclear Medicine, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Boston, USA
** Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Institute for Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Deaconess Hospital, Boston, USA

Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Kentucky, Louisville, Kentucky, USA

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Figure 1 Change in global ejection fraction: Subjects with a decline of 5% on placebo (n = 5). Boxes indicate mean values, with error bars demonstrating 1 SE unit. EF = left ventricular ejection fraction.
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