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 ...

For decades, beta-blockers have been commonly prescribed as a standard treatment for adults who have had heart attacks with ...

What if calming your heart didn’t require a prescription? For decades, drugs called beta-blockers have been the standard for ...

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

The results run counter to ABYSS but align with other data showing beta-blockers shouldn’t continue indefinitely after MI.

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 ...

In stable patients without heart failure, discontinuing beta-blockers 1 year after a heart attack was noninferior to ...

The SMART-DECISION trial has found that in stabilized patients after myocardial infarction (MI) without heart failure or left ventricular systolic dysfunction, discontinuing beta-blockers after one ...

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

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 ...

In this analysis, researchers evaluated whether beta blocker use is associated with improved survival in patients with solid tumors.

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 ...