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 ...

β-blockers exert an antihypertensive effect via several mechanisms of action: central inhibition of sympathetic nervous system outflow, inhibition of the renin–angiotensin system by decreasing ...

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 ...

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

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

Switching from beta-blockers to digoxin as first line therapy for older patients with AF could produce £100m in NHS savings annually.