Yodo Tamaki, Hidenori Yaku, Takeshi Morimoto, Yasutaka Inuzuka, Neiko Ozasa, Erika Yamamoto, Yusuke Yoshikawa, Makoto Miyake, Hirokazu Kondo, Toshihiro Tamura, Takeshi Kitai, Moritake Iguchi, Kazuya Nagao, Ryusuke Nishikawa, Yuichi Kawase, Takashi Morinaga, Mitsunori Kawato, Mamoru Toyofuku, Yukihito Sato, Koichiro Kuwahara, Yoshihisa Nakagawa, Takao Kato, Takeshi Kimura
Background It remains unclear whether beta-blocker use at hospital admission is associated with better in-hospital outcomes in patients with acute decompensated heart failure. Methods and Results We evaluated the factors independently associated with beta-blocker use at admission, and the effect of beta-blocker use at admission on in-hospital mortality in 3817 patients with acute decompensated heart failure enrolled in the Kyoto Congestive Heart Failure registry. There were 1512 patients (39.7%) receiving, and 2305 patients (60...
July 6, 2021: Journal of the American Heart Association