Clinical impact of beta-blockers at discharge on long-term clinical outcomes in patients with non-reduced ejection fraction after acute myocardial infarction.

Background: Beta-blockers are associated with several clinical benefits in patients with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (REF) after acute myocardial infarction (AMI), such as lower rates of mortality, recurrence of myocardial infarction, and heart failure. However, the long-term prognosis of beta-blockers has rarely been investigated in patients with non-REF after AMI. This study aimed to investigate the clinical benefits of beta-blockers in these patients.
Methods: A total of 3281 consecutive patients who were hospitalized within 48 h after AMI were registered in the J-MINUET study. Patients who underwent primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and had a left ventricular ejection fraction ≥40 % were enrolled, and patients who died during admission were excluded. Included patients were divided into two groups according to the prescription of beta-blockers at discharge. Their characteristics and clinical outcomes were compared.
Results: The number of AMI patients treated with beta-blockers was 1353 (70.4 %). Patients who received beta-blockers were younger and had a higher incidence of hypertension, dyslipidemia, and ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction than those who did not receive beta-blockers. The peak creatine kinase level after primary PCI was significantly higher in patients who received beta-blockers. These patients also had a lower incidence of a composite of all-cause death, myocardial infarction, and stroke compared to those that did not receive beta-blockers (7.3 % vs. 11.9 %, p = 0.001). Multivariate analysis showed that beta-blocker use was an independent factor for better clinical outcomes.
Conclusions: The J-MINUET study revealed the clinical benefit of beta-blockers in AMI patients with non-REF after primary PCI.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest Yoshihiko Saito: grants from MEXT KAKENHI Grant Number JP19155855, grants from Health Labour Sciences Research Grant Number 19189094, grants from Health Labour Sciences Research Grant Number 17933459, grants from AMED under Grant Number JP19ek0210080, grants from AMED under Grant Number JP19ek0210118, grants from AMED under Grant Number JP19ek0210121, grants from AMED under Grant Number JP19ek0210115, grants from AMED under Grant Number JP19ek0109367, grants from AMED under Grant Number JP19ek0109406, grants from AMED under Grant Number JP19km0405009, during the conduct of the study; grants and personal fees from Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., grants and personal fees from Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., grants from Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., grants and personal fees from Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd., grants and personal fees from Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation, grants and personal fees from Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, grants from Actelion Pharmaceuticals Japan Ltd., grants from Kyowa Kirin Co., Ltd., grants and personal fees from Kowa Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., grants from Shionogi & Co., Ltd., grants from Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma Co., Ltd., grants and personal fees from Teijin Pharma Ltd., grants from Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., grants from Eli Lilly Japan K.K., grants from Nihon Medi-Physics Co., Ltd., grants, personal fees and other from Novartis Pharma K.K., grants and personal fees from Pfizer Japan Inc., grants from Fuji Yakuhin Co., Ltd., grants, personal fees and other from Bayer Yakuhin, Ltd., other from Amgen Astellas BioPharma K.K., other from Actelion Pharmaceuticals Japan Ltd., other from Roche Diagnostics K.K., personal fees from Alnylam Japan K.K., personal fees from AstraZeneca K.K., personal fees from Tsumura & Co., personal fees from Toa Eiyo Ltd., personal fees from Nippon Shinyaku Co., Ltd., personal fees from Nippon Boehringer Ingelheim Co., Ltd., personal fees from Mochida Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. Kengo Tanabe: personal fees from Abbott Vascular, personal fees from Boston Scientific, personal fees from Medtronic, personal fees from Terumo, personal fees from Kaneka, from Japan Lifeline. Hisao Ogawa: personal fees from Towa Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., personal fees from Bristol-Meyers Squibb Co., Ltd., personal fees from Pfizer Co., Ltd., personal fees from Toa Eiyo Co., Ltd., personal fees from Bayer Yakuhin Co., Ltd., personal fees from Novartis Pharma Co., Ltd. Masaharu Ishihara: grants from Abbott Vascular Japan Co., Ltd., grants and personal fees from Amgen Astellas Bio Pharma K.K., grants from Astellas Pharma Inc., grants and personal fees from Bayer Yakuhin, Ltd., grants from Boston Scientific Japan K.K., grants and personal fees from Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited, grants from Fukuda Denshi Co., Ltd., grants from Goodman Co., LTD., grants from Japan Lifeline Co., Ltd., grants from Kowa Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., grants from MID, Inc., grants from Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation, grants and personal fees from MSD K.K., grants from Nippon Shinyaku Co., Ltd., grants from Nipro Corporation, grants from Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., grants from Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., grants from Pfizer Japan Inc., grants and personal fees from Sanofi K.K., grants from Shionogi & Co., Ltd., grants from Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co., Ltd., grants from Takeda pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., grants from Teijin Pharma Ltd., grants from Terumo Corporation, grants from Abbott Medical Japan Co., Ltd., grants from Medtronic Japan Co., Ltd., grants from Nippon Boehringer Ingelheim Co., Ltd.
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