* PAST STUDIES have shown that patients taking beta blockers to treat chronic heart failure may initially experience a dangerous drop in blood pressure and salt retention that could worsen their ...

Beta blockers have been shown to prolong survival in chronic heart failure. It is currently a matter of debate whether any β blocker is superior to the other in terms of improving symptoms, left ...

Among patients who were taking beta blockers at admission, discontinuing the drug was associated with a more than twofold higher risk of 90-day mortality in patients with heart failure only and a ...

None of these patients had heart failure or LVSD: 34,253 of them were prescribed beta blockers and were still on these drugs 1 year after hospital discharge; 9365 hadn't been prescribed these drugs.

Stockholm, Sweden - Initiating chronic heart-failure (CHF) treatment with the beta blocker bisoprolol is as safe and effective as starting treatment with guideline-recommended ACE-inhibitor ...

Their newer study finds the drugs might even pose harm. They looked at data from more than 800 heart attack survivors without heart failure who had either been prescribed a beta-blocker or some ...

Beta blockers reduce death in patients who are also taking diuretics and ACE inhibitors for chronic heart failure. In the Carvedilol or Metoprolol European Trial (COMET) led by Philip Poole-Wilson ...

A recent study investigated 43,618 adult patients who’d had a heart attack but did not have subsequent heart failure or other cardiac complications to see whether taking beta-blockers in the ...

People not on long-term beta blockers actually had a lower rate of death, repeat heart attack, heart failure or emergency heart procedure: They suffered those problems at a rate of just under 4% ...

Source Reference: Ishak D, et al "Association of beta-blockers beyond 1 year after myocardial infarction and cardiovascular outcomes" Heart 2023; DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2022-322115.

A TLANTA — Beta blockers are a mainstay in cardiovascular treatment, frequently given to patients after heart attacks. But a new large trial turns that convention on its head, suggesting that ...

Taking beta blockers after a heart attack did not significantly reduce the risk of death or a second heart attack among people with normal heart pumping ability, as indicated by an ejection ...