mechanisms, blockade of which has a beneficial effect on the failing heart. It has been assumed that β-AR antagonists (β-blockers) have a direct favorable influence on the heart, but our results ...

Beta-blockers antagonize beta-1 and beta-2 receptors ... decreases the propagation of action potentials. This is also the mechanism that local anesthetics work (lidocaine). Class I antiarrhythmic ...

Beta blockers affect both of these mechanisms, according to the expert. In fact, a 2012 study published in the journal Sleep ...

Beta blockers have been shown to prolong survival ... progressive ventricular remodeling may be the critical mechanism leading to an impairment of ventricular function already at rest.

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 ...

Medication is sometimes necessary to treat eye conditions and vision problems. Of course, this is highly dependent on the ...

The Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission has warned that beta-blockers, commonly prescribed for irregular heartbeat and hypertension, can cause hypokalaemia or dangerously low potassium levels.

Patients can die if they take certain previously prescribed beta-blockers during a hematopoietic cell transplant due to suppressed signals from nerves that promote bone marrow regeneration.

Beta-blocker therapy was associated with a lower ... The study could not establish causality or determine mechanisms to account for the relationships seen in this study, Schultz and co-authors ...

A new study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Södersjukhuset shows that advanced ultrasound imaging analyses cannot ...

The following is a summary of “Cost-effectiveness of digoxin versus beta blockers in permanent atrial fibrillation: the Rate Control Therapy Evaluation in Permanent Atrial Fibrillation (RATE-AF) ...

The classification of drugs have been around since 1964 after Sir James Black discovered how they can assist people with heart disease.