Rethink on beta blockers for heart attack survivors who take their other heart medication
(WorldNews Health)

20 September 2017 Monash Associate Professor Simon Bell. Beta blockers were found to offer no additional survival benefit for heart attack survivors who take two other medicines as prescribed, according to a new study involving Monash University`s Centre for Medicine Use and Safety. Heart-attack patients are usually prescribed beta blockers, ACE inhibitors and statins to help prevent a second attack and death. However, the study, in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has challenged the belief that many heart-attack survivors need to take all three medicines to reduce their risk of death. Published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the...