Table 4.
Blood pressure and heart rate adverse effects for studies with p values, percentage change from baseline
| Paper | Regimen | mBP (mm Hg) ±SD | mDBP (mm Hg) ±SD | mSBP (mm Hg) ±SD | mHR (beats/min)±SD |
| Bonthala (2000)8 | P 1%, C 0.2% (2 d) | ↓ 11.5±5.8%* | – | – | ↑ 0.6±1.2%* |
| Bolt (1992)7
|
P 2.5% (1d), T 0.5% (2 d) | ↓ 4% | – | – | ↓ 1% |
| C 0.5% (1d), T 0.5% (2 d) | ↑ 5.1%* | – | – | ↑ 3.7%† | |
| Elibol (1997)17
|
C 1% (2 d) | ↑ 16.2%±2.2%*† | – | – | ‡ |
| C 1% (2 microd) | ↓ 1%±2.3%*† | – | – | ‡ | |
| P 10% (2 d) | ↑ 8%±0.2%*† | – | – | ‡ | |
| P 10% (2 microd) | 0±1.9%* | – | – | ‡ | |
| T 0.5% (2 d) | ↑ 17.5%±0.2%*† | – | – | ‡ | |
| T 0.5% (2 microd) | ↓ 1.4 ± 0.3%* | – | – | ‡ | |
| Isenberg (1984 March)40
|
C 0.5% (2 d) | ↓10%±12%† | – | – | ↑ 7.5%±18% |
| C 0.5%, T 0.5% (2 d) | ↓ 10%±12%† | – | – | ↑ 7.5%±18% | |
| P 1%, C 0.2% (2 d) | ↓ 5.8%±14%† | – | – | ↓ 1.7%±11% | |
| Isenberg (1984 July)18
|
C 0.5% | ↓ 13.2% | ↓ 3.3% | ||
| P 1%, C 0.2% | ↓ 3.8% | ↓ 4.3% | |||
| P 2.5%, T 0.5% | ↑ 19.6% | ↓ 5.2% | |||
| Jiang (2016)10 | P 0.5%, T 0.5% (3 d) | – | ↑ 8.5*† | ↑ 5.4%*§ | – |
| Khoo (2000)16
|
P 1%, C 0.2% (3 d) | ↑ 3.7% | −1% | ↑ 0.8% | ↓ 4.5% |
| P 2.5%, T 0.5% (3 d) | ↓ 0.4% | ↓ 0.3% | ↓ 1.2% | ↓ 6.6% | |
| Laws (1996)11 | P 2.5% (2d), C 0.5% (4 d) | – | ↑ 4.8%* | ↑ 5%* | ↓ 1.3%* |
| Lees (1981)12 | P 2.5%, T 0.5% (1 d) | ↑ 19.4%† | ↑ 19.1%† | ↑ 17.1%† | 0% |
| Merritt (1981)45
|
P 2.5%, T 1% (3 d) | – | – | 0% | – |
| P 2.5%, T 0.5%, C 0.5% (3 d) |
– | – | 0% | – | |
| Phamonvaechavan (2012)23 | P 2.5%, T 0.75% (2 d) | – | 0% | 0% | ↓ 3.2% |
| Sindel (1986)19
|
P 2.5%, T 1% (2 d) | ↓ 17.1%±10.4%† | – | – | – |
| P 2.5%, T 0.5%, C 0.5% (2 d) |
↑ 22.8%±17.4%† | – | – | ↑ 10.0%±10.6%† | |
| P 1%, T 1% (2 d) | ↑ 7.7%±9.3%† | – | – | – |
*Data approximated from graph or was converted to percentage.
†P<0.05 to 0.01.
‡Data not presented.
§P=0.08.
C, cyclopentolate;P, phenylephrine;T, tropicamide;d, standard drop;mDBP, mean diastolic blood pressure;mHR, mean heart rate;mSDP, mean systolic blood pressure;microd, microdrop.