Randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled trial of coenzyme Q10 in patients with acute myocardial infarction

• Published in: Cardiovascular drugs and therapy Vol. 12; no. 4; pp. 347 - 353
• Main Authors: SINGH, R. B, WANDER, G. S, RASTOGI, A, SHUKLA, P. K, MITTAL, A, SHARMA, J. P, MEHROTRA, S. K, KAPOOR, R, CHOPRA, R. K
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer 01.09.1998
• Subjects: Angina Pectoris - drug therapy; Antioxidants - therapeutic use; Arrhythmias, Cardiac - drug therapy; Biological and medical sciences; Cardiovascular system; Coenzymes; Double-Blind Method; Heart Ventricles - drug effects; Humans; Male; Medical sciences; Miscellaneous; Myocardial Infarction - drug therapy; Myocardial Infarction - mortality; Myocardial Infarction - prevention & control; Myocardium - enzymology; Oxidative Stress - drug effects; Pharmacology. Drug treatments; Placebos; Time Factors; Ubiquinone - analogs & derivatives; Ubiquinone - therapeutic use; Human; Oxidative stress; Infarct; Acute; Treatment efficiency; Cardioprotective agent; Vitamin; Oral administration; Cardiovascular disease; Controlled therapeutic trial; Antioxidant; Coronary heart disease; Myocardial disease; Long term; Coenzyme; Chemotherapy; Randomization; Treatment; Ubiquinone; Placebo; Double blind study; Myocardium
• ISSN: 0920-3206; 1573-7241
• DOI: 10.1023/A:1007764616025

The effects of oral treatment with coenzyme Q10 (120 mg/d) were compared for 28 days in 73 (intervention group A) and 71 (placebo group B) patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). After treatment, angina pectoris (9.5 vs. 28.1), total arrhythmias (9.5% vs. 25.3%), and poor left ventricular function (8.2% vs. 22.5%) were significantly (P < 0.05) reduced in the coenzyme Q group than placebo group. Total cardiac events, including cardiac deaths and nonfatal infarction, were also significantly reduced in the coenzyme Q10 group compared with the placebo group (15.0% vs. 30.9%, P < 0.02). The extent of cardiac disease, elevation in cardiac enzymes, and oxidative stress at entry to the study were comparable between the two groups. Lipid peroxides, diene conjugates, and malondialdehyde, which are indicators of oxidative stress, showed a greater reduction in the treatment group than in the placebo group. The antioxidants vitamin A, E, and C and beta-carotene, which were lower initially after AMI, increased more in the coenzyme Q10 group than in the placebo group. These findings suggest that coenzyme Q10 can provide rapid protective effects in patients with AMI if administered within 3 days of the onset of symptoms. More studies in a larger number of patients and long-term follow-up are needed to confirm our results.