Heart rate score, a measure related to chronotropic incompetence in pacemaker patients

Autor: Arjun D. Sharma, MD, Mark Richards, MD, PhD, FHRS, Brian Olshansky, MD, FHRS, Nicholas Wold, MS, Paul Jones, MS, David Perschbacher, BS, Bruce L. Wilkoff, MD, FHRS
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Heart Rhythm O2, Vol 2, Iss 2, Pp 124-131 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2666-5018
DOI: 10.1016/j.hroo.2021.02.002
Popis: Background: Heart rate score (HrSc) ≥70% in cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator and implantable cardioverter-defibrillator subjects predicts 5-year mortality risk. A high HrSc suggests few sensed cardiac cycles above the programmed lower rate. Objective: To determine if HrSc is related to chronotropic incompetence (CI) in pacemaker (PM) subjects. Methods: HrSc is the percentage of all atrial-paced and sensed events in the single tallest 10 beats/min histogram bin programmed to DDD 60/min. The prospective LIFE study of PM subjects examined multiple treadmill-based measures of CI. The 1-month postimplant DDD 60/min PM rate histogram prior to treadmill was retrospectively analyzed for HrSc. Measures of CI were applied to submaximal treadmill data in the DDD mode. HrSc was compared to these CI measures and to clinical indications for PM. Results: The 1-month histogram demonstrated HrSc ≥70% in 43% of subjects. HrSc ≥70% correlated with a clinical diagnosis of sick sinus syndrome (P < .001). CI was present in 34%–88% of subjects by treadmill-based measures. Agreement between treadmill-based measures for CI was poor and varied from 39% to 83%. HrSc ≥70%, as a measure of CI, was most highly correlated with unpaced heart rate
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