Study examines link between beta-blocker use and risk of heart attack after surgery
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 - 06:56
in Health & Medicine
Some patients who received beta-blockers before and around the time of undergoing non-cardiac surgery appear to have higher rates of heart attack and death within 30 days of their surgery, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...
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