• BMJ · Sep 2016

    Multicenter Study

    β blockers and mortality after myocardial infarction in patients without heart failure: multicentre prospective cohort study.

    • Etienne Puymirat, Elisabeth Riant, Nadia Aissoui, Angèle Soria, Gregory Ducrocq, Pierre Coste, Yves Cottin, Jean François Aupetit, Eric Bonnefoy, Didier Blanchard, Simon Cattan, Gabriel Steg, François Schiele, Jean Ferrières, Yves Juillière, Tabassome Simon, and Nicolas Danchin.
    • Department of Cardiology, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, 75015 Paris, France Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France Université Paris-Descartes, Paris, France etienne.puymirat@egp.aphp.fr.
    • BMJ. 2016 Sep 20; 354: i4801.

    Objective To assess the association between early and prolonged β blocker treatment and mortality after acute myocardial infarction.Design Multicentre prospective cohort study.Setting Nationwide French registry of Acute ST- and non-ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction (FAST-MI) (at 223 centres) at the end of 2005.Participants 2679 consecutive patients with acute myocardial infarction and without heart failure or left ventricular dysfunction.Main Outcome Measures Mortality was assessed at 30 days in relation to early use of β blockers (≤48 hours of admission), at one year in relation to discharge prescription, and at five years in relation to one year use.Results β blockers were used early in 77% (2050/2679) of patients, were prescribed at discharge in 80% (1783/2217), and were still being used in 89% (1230/1383) of those alive at one year. Thirty day mortality was lower in patients taking early β blockers (adjusted hazard ratio 0.46, 95% confidence interval 0.26 to 0.82), whereas the hazard ratio for one year mortality associated with β blockers at discharge was 0.77 (0.46 to 1.30). Persistence of β blockers at one year was not associated with lower five year mortality (hazard ratio 1.19, 0.65 to 2.18). In contrast, five year mortality was lower in patients continuing statins at one year (hazard ratio 0.42, 0.25 to 0.72) compared with those discontinuing statins. Propensity score and sensitivity analyses showed consistent results.Conclusions Early β blocker use was associated with reduced 30 day mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction, and discontinuation of β blockers at one year was not associated with higher five year mortality. These findings question the utility of prolonged β blocker treatment after acute myocardial infarction in patients without heart failure or left ventricular dysfunction.Trial registration Clinical trials NCT00673036.Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions.

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