For decades, surviving a heart attack has come with a lifelong prescription: Stay on medications called beta-blockers to help ...

Medically reviewed by Patricia Mikula, PharmD Key Takeaways Beta-blockers may not reduce the risk of death or repeat heart ...

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 ...

For many years, people who survived a heart attack were told to take beta-blockers for the rest of their lives. These ...

Among stable, relatively low-risk patients who had previously suffered a heart attack, discontinuing beta-blockers after at least one year was found to be non-inferior, or comparable, to continuing ...

After a heart attack, many patients are prescribed medications to protect their heart and prevent another serious event. One ...

Current guideline recommendations for the use of beta-blockers after myocardial infarction without reduced ejection fraction are based on trials conducted before routine reperfusion, invasive care, ...

The 3 common mainstays of angina therapy are beta-blockers, calcium channel blockers, and nitrates. These medicines treat the chest pain and provide other benefits as well. Isosorbide is a nitrate, ...