The current clinical guideline that heart-attack survivors should take all three drugs - beta blockers, ACE inhibitors and statins - for the rest of their lives, has been challenged by a group of clinicians from University of Caroline. The group suggests that, beta blockers are not needed after a heart attack if heart-attack survivors are taking ACE inhibitors and statins. Heart-attack survivors are usually prescribed all three drugs to help prevent a second attack and death. However, the beta blockers offer no additional benefit for patients who take the other two drugs as prescribed, according to the new study, which examined the trade-offs and consequences of using some of the medicines instead of others. Source : Maarit J. Korhonen, Jennifer G.
Robinson, Izabela E. Annis, Ryan P. Hickson, J. Simon Bell, Juha Hartikainen, Gang Fang. Adherence Tradeoff to Multiple Preventive Therapies…
