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      Clinical Outcome of Acute Myocardial Infarction in Patients on Treatment with Beta-Blockers or Calcium Antagonists

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          To assess the effects of current treatments with β-blockers or calcium antagonists on the clinical outcome of acute myocardial infarction (MI), enzymatically estimated infarct sizes, circulatory arrests from ventricular tachyarrhythmias, ventricular tachycardia (VT)/ventricular fibrillation (VF), and in-hospital mortality were analyzed retrospectively from 7,922 citizens of Malmö, Sweden, hospitalized due to a first MI between 1973 and 1987. Of these patients, 296 were on treatment with calcium antagonists, 393 on treatment with a β<sub>1</sub>-selective β-blocker, 482 with a nonselec-tive β-blocker, and 95 on combined treatment with β-blockers and calcium antagonists at the time of admission to hospital. In a set of multivariate analyses including several clinical characteristics, patients on treatment with a nonselective β-blocker had a significantly lower peak aspartate ami-notransferase (ASAT; difference -0.70 µkat/1, 95% CL: -1.24 to -0.16), whereas no significant relations between peak ASAT and treatment with cardioselective β-blockers or calcium antagonists were found. Treatment with cardioselective β-blockers or calcium antagonists, in contrast to treatment with a nonselective β-blocker, were significant predictors of the occurrence of circulatory arrests from VT/VF. The relative risk of VT/VF in patients on cardioselective β-blockers was 1.51 (95% CI: 1.12-2.03), and in patients on calcium antagonists 1.44 (95% CI: 1.03-2.02). None of the treatments were significantly associated with in-hospital mortality. In patients on β-blockers or calcium antagonists when suffering their first MI, nonselective β-blockade may reduce infarct size. Treatment with β-block-ers or calcium antagonists identified patients with an increased risk of circulatory arrests from VT/VF, but neither of the treatments were significantly associated with in-hospital mortality. We suggest that only minor differences exist between the effects of chronic treatment with β-blockers and calcium antagonists on the outcome of an acute MI.

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          Journal
          CRD
          Cardiology
          10.1159/issn.0008-6312
          Cardiology
          S. Karger AG
          0008-6312
          1421-9751
          1992
          1992
          12 November 2008
          : 80
          : 5-6
          : 382-391
          Affiliations
          aSection of Cardiology and bDepartment of Community, Health Sciences, Malmö General, Hospital, Sweden
          Article
          175029 Cardiology 1992;80:382–391
          10.1159/000175029
          1360331
          49992700-3527-4730-9302-b774fa21c755
          © 1992 S. Karger AG, Basel

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          History
          : 21 February 1992
          : 05 March 1992
          Page count
          Pages: 10
          Categories
          Coronary Care

          General medicine,Neurology,Cardiovascular Medicine,Internal medicine,Nephrology
          Tachyarrhythmia,Myocardial infarction,β-Blockers,Calcium antagonists

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