One way or another, beta blockers are always in the news. Take, for instance, Los Angeles Chargers Head Coach Jim Harbaugh, who revealed in October that he's part of a growing group of Americans ...

Beta-blockers antagonize beta-1 and beta-2 receptors which are the usual targets of the sympathetic nervous system, including epinephrine and norepinephrine. This results in a decreased heart rate ...

A recent study from MedUni Vienna found that as portal hypertension worsens, inflammation in the body also increases. This means that people with severe liver disease not only have high blood pressure ...

The Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission has warned that beta-blockers, commonly prescribed for irregular heartbeat and hypertension, can cause hypokalaemia or dangerously low potassium levels.

Beta-blockers are widely used medications that help manage high blood pressure by reducing the heart rate and relaxing blood ...

The dose of the first- or second-generation β blocker that the patient is receiving is an important consideration for the switching regimen chosen. The major factors to be kept in mind when ...

However, β blockers do not all share the same clinical outcomes with respect to efficacy or safety in many of these conditions. This is especially true in HF, where differences in reverse ...