ABSTRACT
Objective:To study therapeutic effect of cilazapril and amlodipine on QT interval dispersion and arrhyth-mia in patients with essential hypertension (EH) .Methods:A total of 120 EH patients complicated with ventricular arrhythmia in our hospital from Mar 2011 to Mar 2014 were enrolled ,randomly and equally divided into cilazapril group and amlodipine group ,the two groups all received routine antihypertensive therapy .Blood pressure ,QT in-terval and arrhythmias were compared between two groups .Results:Compared with amlodipine group ,there were significant reductions in 24h mean systolic blood pressure [24hSBP ,(123.81 ± 17.95) mmHg vs .(104.92 ± 14.25) mmHg] ,24h mean diastolic blood pressure [24hDBP ,(88.31 ± 10.28) mmHg vs .(72.24 ± 8.45) mmHg] ,24hSBP variability [ (11.62 ± 1.34) mmHg vs .(7.34 ± 0.97) mmHg] ,24hDBP variability [ (9.47 ± 1.18) mmHg vs .(5.13 ± 0.72) mmHg] ,QT interval [ (385.1 ± 50.4) ms vs .(342.7 ± 48.5) ms] ,corrected QT interval [ (362.7 ± 50.2) ms vs .(321.8 ± 45.1) ms] and QT interval dispersion [ (34.1 ± 5.1) ms vs .(22.5 ± 3.7) ms] in cilazapril group , P<0.05 or <0.01;ventricular arrhythmia class in cilazapril group was significantly better than that of amlodipine group , P<0. 05. Conclusion:Therapeutic effect of cilazapril is more helpful to reduce blood pressure ,QT interval dispersion and improve ventricular arrhythmia than amlodipine in EH patients complicated with arrhythmia .