What resting heart rate should one aim for when treating patients with heart failure with a beta-blocker?: Experiences from the Metoprolol Controlled Release/Extended Release Randomized Intervention Trial in Chronic Heart Failure (MERIT-HF)

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 252-259

  Gullestad, Lars ^a   Wikstrand, John ^b,c   Deedwania, Prakash ^d   Hjalmarson, Åke ^e   Egstrup, Kenneth ^f   Elkayam, Uri ^g   Gottlieb, Stephen ^h   Rashkow, Andrew ⁱ   Wedel, Hans ^j   Bermann, Georgina ^c   Kjekshus, John ^k  

^a Baerums Sykehus   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c ASTRAZENECA R AND D   (Sweden)

^d California ^*  (Canada)

^e SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^f SVENDBORG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^j NORDIC SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Sweden)

^k UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIGITALIS; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; METOPROLOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED RELEASE FORMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK REDUCTION; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; DELAYED-ACTION PREPARATIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART RATE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; METOPROLOL; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REST; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 19944429041     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2004.10.032     Document Type: Article

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