Medical Xpress November 11, 2024
All patients who have had a heart attack are typically treated using beta blockers. According to a Swedish study conducted earlier in 2024, this drug is unlikely to be needed for those heart patients who have normal pumping ability. Now a sub-study at Uppsala University shows that there is also a risk that these patients will become depressed by the treatment.
The findings are published in the European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care.
“We found that beta blockers led to slightly higher levels of depression symptoms in patients who had had a heart attack but were not suffering from heart failure. At the same time, beta blockers have no life-sustaining function for this group of patients,” says Philip Leissner, a...
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