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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: myocardial infarction + beta blockers + risk  Related to the article below (Last Update: 7/1/2008)

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… of Beta-Blockade on Mortality among High-Risk and Low-Risk Patients after Myocardial Infarction -
SS Gottlieb, RJ McCarter, RA Vogel - New England Journal of Medicine, 1998 - content.nejm.org
... Cardiac Outcomes After Myocardial Infarction in Elderly Patients ... Effect of beta blockers
after coronary artery bypass in ... patients with, or at risk of, coronary ...

The risk of myocardial infarction associated with antihypertensive drug therapies -
BM Psaty, SR Heckbert, TD Koepsell, DS Siscovick, … - JAMA, 1995 - Am Med Assoc
... While high doses of beta-blockers were associated with a decreased risk of myocardial
infarction (trend P = .04), high doses of calcium channel blockers were ...

Adverse outcomes of underuse of beta-blockers in elderly survivors of acute myocardial infarction -
SB Soumerai, TJ McLaughlin, D Spiegelman, E … - JAMA, 1997 - Am Med Assoc
... cohort of 5332 elderly 30-day acute myocardial infarction (AMI) survivors with ... MAIN
OUTCOME MEASURES: beta-Blocker and calcium channel blocker use in ...

… on Perioperative Mortality and Myocardial Infarction in High-Risk Patients Undergoing Vascular … -
D Poldermans, E Boersma, JJ Bax, IR Thomson, LLM … - New England Journal of Medicine, 1999 - content.nejm.org
... have one or more cardiac risk factors ... they were already taking a beta-blocker, and
eight ... Nonfatal myocardial infarction occurred in nine patients given standard ...

… of {beta}-Blockers for the Treatment of Elderly Patients After Acute Myocardial Infarction: … -
HM Krumholz, MJ Radford, Y Wang, J Chen, A Heiat, … - JAMA, 1998 - Am Med Assoc
... ACC/AHA guidelines state that -blockers are not ... of the following high-risk
characteristics, based on the guidelines: prior myocardial infarction, an anterior ...

… diabetes mellitus and coronary artery disease. Bezafibrate Infarction Prevention (BIP) Study Group. -
M Jonas, H Reicher-Reiss, V Boyko, A Shotan, L … - Am J Cardiol, 1996 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... the main benefit associated with beta-blocker therapy was ... with a history of myocardial
infarction, those with ... functional capacity, and those at lower risk. ...

Secondary prevention after high-risk acute myocardial infarction with low-dose acebutolol.
JP Boissel, A Leizorovicz, H Picolet, JC Peyrieux - Am J Cardiol, 1990 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... daily, a beta blocker with mild intrinsic sympathomimetic activity, in the prevention
of late death in high-risk postacute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients ...

… in patients with acute myocardial infarction. Results of the Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction -
R Roberts, WJ Rogers, HS Mueller, CT Lambrew, DJ … - Circulation, 1991 - Am Heart Assoc
... Use and Outcomes Associated With {beta}-Blockers in Patients ... and AS Jaffe Acute
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… an implanted defibrillator in patients with coronary disease at high risk for ventricular arrhythmia …
AJ Moss, WJ Hall, DS Cannom, JP Daubert, SL … - N Engl J Med, 1996 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... There was no evidence that amiodarone, beta-blockers, or any other ... In patients with
a prior myocardial infarction who are at high risk for ventricular ...

A comparison of immediate angioplasty with thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction -
CL Grines, KF Browne, J Marco, D Rothbaum, GW Stone … - N Engl J Med, 1993 - Mass Med Soc
... or t-PA after treatment with aspirin and beta-blockers. ... fewer risks, especially in
high-risk patients ... with thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction. ...

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Statins, beta-blockers lessen myocardial infarction risk

A research from the Stanford University School of Medicine suggests that statins and beta-blockers can steer patients away from having a myocardial infarction toward the less serious symptom of mild chest pain that occurs only with exercise ( angina ).

 
The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, was conducted with investigators at Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland and the University of California - San Francisco ( UCSF ).

Researchers for the study wanted to know how doctors could help reduce a patient's risk of having a myocardial infarction as a first symptom even if medications for high blood pressure or high cholesterol were unsuccessful in stopping the onset of heart disease.
Statins are typically prescribed to reduce cholesterol, and beta-blockers are given to patients with high blood pressure.

Researchers evaluated 1,400 patients enrolled within Kaiser Permanente of Northern California between the years 2001-2003. Of those patients, only 20 percent who had suffered a myocardial infarction were on a statin, compared with 40 percent of patients who presented with exertional angina.

The patients who suffered a myocardial infarction "out of the blue" were much less likely than those who had only angina to be taking statins and beta-blockers.
Patients on statins reduced the risk of myocardial infarction by more than half.

" We looked at all the medications used to prevent heart disease," said Alan Go, of Kaiser Permanente of Northern California's division of research and lead author of the study. " But only statins and beta-blockers lowered the risk of myocardial infarction."

The study also looked at use of alpha-blockers, ACE inhibitors or angiotensin II receptor blockers and, among women, of hormone therapy. None of these treatments showed a similar correlation with a lower risk of myocardial infarction.

Source: Stanford University Medical Center, 2006
 
 
 
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