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Beta-Blockers after Myocardial Infarction and Preserved Ejection Fraction.
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The New England journal of medicine [N Engl J Med] 2024 Apr 18; Vol. 390 (15), pp. 1372-1381. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Apr 07. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Background: Most trials that have shown a benefit of beta-blocker treatment after myocardial infarction included patients with large myocardial infarctions and were conducted in an era before modern biomarker-based diagnosis of myocardial infarction and treatment with percutaneous coronary intervention, antithrombotic agents, high-intensity statins, and renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system antagonists.<br />Methods: In a parallel-group, open-label trial performed at 45 centers in Sweden, Estonia, and New Zealand, we randomly assigned patients with an acute myocardial infarction who had undergone coronary angiography and had a left ventricular ejection fraction of at least 50% to receive either long-term treatment with a beta-blocker (metoprolol or bisoprolol) or no beta-blocker treatment. The primary end point was a composite of death from any cause or new myocardial infarction.<br />Results: From September 2017 through May 2023, a total of 5020 patients were enrolled (95.4% of whom were from Sweden). The median follow-up was 3.5 years (interquartile range, 2.2 to 4.7). A primary end-point event occurred in 199 of 2508 patients (7.9%) in the beta-blocker group and in 208 of 2512 patients (8.3%) in the no-beta-blocker group (hazard ratio, 0.96; 95% confidence interval, 0.79 to 1.16; P = 0.64). Beta-blocker treatment did not appear to lead to a lower cumulative incidence of the secondary end points (death from any cause, 3.9% in the beta-blocker group and 4.1% in the no-beta-blocker group; death from cardiovascular causes, 1.5% and 1.3%, respectively; myocardial infarction, 4.5% and 4.7%; hospitalization for atrial fibrillation, 1.1% and 1.4%; and hospitalization for heart failure, 0.8% and 0.9%). With regard to safety end points, hospitalization for bradycardia, second- or third-degree atrioventricular block, hypotension, syncope, or implantation of a pacemaker occurred in 3.4% of the patients in the beta-blocker group and in 3.2% of those in the no-beta-blocker group; hospitalization for asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in 0.6% and 0.6%, respectively; and hospitalization for stroke in 1.4% and 1.8%.<br />Conclusions: Among patients with acute myocardial infarction who underwent early coronary angiography and had a preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (≥50%), long-term beta-blocker treatment did not lead to a lower risk of the composite primary end point of death from any cause or new myocardial infarction than no beta-blocker use. (Funded by the Swedish Research Council and others; REDUCE-AMI ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT03278509.).<br /> (Copyright © 2024 Massachusetts Medical Society.)
- Subjects :
- Humans
Heart Failure etiology
Stroke Volume
Treatment Outcome
Ventricular Function, Left
Secondary Prevention
Adrenergic beta-Antagonists adverse effects
Adrenergic beta-Antagonists therapeutic use
Bisoprolol adverse effects
Bisoprolol therapeutic use
Myocardial Infarction complications
Myocardial Infarction diagnostic imaging
Myocardial Infarction mortality
Myocardial Infarction therapy
Metoprolol adverse effects
Metoprolol therapeutic use
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1533-4406
- Volume :
- 390
- Issue :
- 15
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- The New England journal of medicine
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 38587241
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2401479