Nearly half of all adults in the U.S. have high blood pressure, or hypertension, according to the CDC. One of the most common ...

(HealthDay News) — For patients with heart failure, higher beta-blocker (BB) dose is associated with more improvements in outcomes than lower heart rate (HR), according to a study published online in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Beta-blocker therapy did not improve survival beyond 1 year after an MI, although a dose-dependent effect was ...

(HealthDay News) — Patients treated with low-dose beta-blockers after myocardial infarction may fare better than those given the standard dose, according to a study published in the Sept. 29 issue of ...

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 ...

The question of whether to alter beta-blocker therapy in patients with asthma has been reviewed extensively in the medical literature. [1,2,3,4,5] Cardioselective (beta-1) beta-blockers are ...

Propranolol — once reserved for heart problems — is now helping people survive grocery stores, medical offices, breakup chats ...

If there is a benefit to continuing beta-blockers beyond 1 year after acute MI, it might come with a lower dose. And for patients with LV dysfunction after STEMI, mineralocorticoid receptor ...