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 ...

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

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

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

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

For over four decades, many heart attack survivors have been sent home with a prescription for beta-blockers, which are drugs that impact the effects of hormones and adrenaline on the heart and blood ...

The benefit of beta-blockers after myocardial infarction in patients with a preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is unclear. We conducted a meta-analysis at the individual-patient level ...

A common heart attack pill may not be helpful for some heart conditions, according to new research. Bibek Raj Giri/Getty Images Beta-blockers are a common group of medications that help manage several ...