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Horm Metab Res 2016; 48(04): 257-262
DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1565180
Endocrine Care
© Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Nifedipine Treatment for Hypertension is Associated with Enhanced Lipolytic Activity and Accelerated Clearance of Postprandial Lipemia

I. Grosskopf
1   The Bert Strassburger Lipid Center, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
,
A. Shaish
1   The Bert Strassburger Lipid Center, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
,
G. Charach
2   Department of Medicine, Tel Aviv-Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
3   Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
,
D. Harats
1   The Bert Strassburger Lipid Center, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
3   Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
,
Y. Kamari
1   The Bert Strassburger Lipid Center, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
3   Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
4   Hypertension Unit, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Tel Hashomer, Israel
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received 20 May 2015

accepted 16 October 2015

Publication Date:
05 February 2016 (online)

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Abstract

Hypertension, advanced age, postprandial hyperlipidemia, and insulin resistance are major risk factors for atherosclerosis. The calcium channel blocker nifedipine is reported to ameliorate insulin resistance possibly by activating PPARγ. This is expected to become accentuated in elderly individuals due to age-related insulin resistance. Insulin resistance modulates lipoprotein metabolism. Therefore, we reasoned that nifedipne offers the potential for improving postprandial lipemia in association with increasing age. We studied the effect of nifedipine on fasting lipids, postprandial lipemia, insulin sensitivity, and plasma lipolytic activity in 24 and 15 hypertensive subjects aged 70–75 years and 40–45 years, respectively. As expected, nifedipine significantly lowered systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Nifedipine decreased fasting triglyceride level (23%) and increased HDL-C (15%) in the elderly group. At baseline, postprandial triglyceride levels were remarkably elevated in elderly compared to younger patients (1 288±798 vs. 501±260 mg·dl−1·h, p<0.05), as was retinyl palmitate (surrogate marker for intestinally-derived cholesterol) in the chylomicrons (45.0±26.5 vs. 23.4±10.6 mg·l−1·h, p<0.05) and chylomicron remnant (15.2±5.4 vs. 11.7±4.7 mg·l−1·h, p<0.05) fractions. Importantly, while the level of chylomicron remnants in the group of younger subjects remained unchanged after treatment, nifedipine was associated with a significantly decreased chylomicron remnants retinyl palmitate in the elderly group, which dropped to levels, observed in younger subjects. This was accompanied by enhanced insulin sensitivity and augmented plasma lipolytic activity. The present work suggests that nifedipine has favorable metabolic effects that are beyond the known enhancement of insulin sensitivity. The improvement in postprandial lipidemia by nifedipine may add to its anti-atherogenic effects in hypertensive patients.

Key words

nifedipine - hypertension - chylomicron remnants - insulin sensitivity - aging
 

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