Moderate exercise increased platelet aggregability of 12 middle-aged men with stable angina pectoris: the mean ADP threshold fell from 4.58 +/- 0.63 to 3.18 +/- 0.41 microM, P less than 0.01. Exercise did not, however, alter platelet aggregability in 12 healthy matched controls. Physical effort approximately doubled the plasma levels of adrenaline and noradrenaline in patients as well as in controls. Under the same conditions the cAMP content of platelets fell in the angina group from 20.86 +/- 1.86 to 17.78 +/- 1.71 pmol 10(-9) platelets, P less than 0.01, while there was no change in control levels. The fall of cAMP could account for the observed increase in platelet aggregability. We speculate that the increased aggregability of platelets in the exercising anginal subjects represents an imbalance between prostacyclin release and haemodynamic changes. The beta 1-selective blocker metoprolol, in usual therapeutic dosages, prevented the observed platelet changes probably by minimizing the haemodynamic disturbances and stimulating release of prostacyclin.
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