For decades, surviving a heart attack has come with a lifelong prescription: Stay on medications called beta-blockers to help protect your heart. But doctors are taking a closer look at whether ...

People who have had a heart attack may be able to safely discontinue beta-blocker use after a year if they are at low-risk ...

Among stable, relatively low-risk patients who had previously suffered a heart attack, discontinuing beta-blockers after at ...

The cardiovascular safety of interrupting beta-blocker could not be shown in comparison to continuation in patients with a history of myocardial infarction (MI) and there was no benefit to the ...

The role of long-term beta-blocker therapy after a myocardial infarction in patients without left ventricular systolic dysfunction or heart failure is unclear in the era of contemporary ...

What recommendations would you offer to clinicians regarding shared decision-making with patients regarding this issue? Dr Granger: Based on the REDUCE-AMI trial results, I would recommend that ...

The appropriate duration of beta-blocker treatment after a heart attack (a myocardial infarction [MI]) is unknown in patients who do not need to take beta-blockers for another reason. In the ABYSS ...

One way or another, beta blockers are always in the news. Take, for instance, Los Angeles Chargers Head Coach Jim Harbaugh, who revealed in October that he's part of a growing group of Americans who ...

Credit: Getty Images A discussion of the use of beta-blocker therapy following AMI, with Christopher Granger, MD, Gregg Fonarow, MD, and Carlin S Long, MD. Beta blockers have long been included in the ...

An unlikely byproduct of the Oscars red-carpet coverage last Sunday? The mention of beta blockers by actor Rachel Sennott, who told a host that her pre-event routine is to “take that beta blocker, ...