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

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 ...

Stable patients who stop taking beta-blockers a year or more after a heart attack fare no worse than those who keep taking ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

What recommendations would you offer to clinicians regarding shared decision-making with patients regarding this issue? Dr Granger: Based on the REDUCE-AMI trial results, I would recommend that ...

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 ...