Beta-Blockers after Myocardial Infarction without Reduced Ejection Fraction

Abstract

Among patients discharged after invasive care for a myocardial infarction with a left ventricular ejection fraction above 40%, beta-blocker therapy appeared to have no effect on the incidence of death from any cause, reinfarction, or hospitalization for heart failure. (Funded by Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III and others; ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT03596385; EudraCT number, 2017-002485-40.).