Safety and tolerance of beta-blocker treatment in elderly patients with heart failure. BETANIC study;Seguridad y tolerancia del tratamiento con bloqueadores beta en el paciente anciano con insuficiencia cardíaca. Estudio BETANIC

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 141-145

  Yebra Yebra, Miguel ^a   Recio, Jesús ^b   Arévalo Lorido, José Carlos ^c   Cornide Santos, Luis ^d   Cerqueiro González, José Manuel ^e   Manzano, Luis ^a   Amoros Martinez F ^f   Camara T ^f   Carretero Gomez J ^f   Cepeda, J M ^f   Chivite Guillen D ^f   Duran, M ^f   Ferreira, E ^f   Grau Amoros J ^f   Mena, E ^f   Moreno Palomares, J J ^f   Nieto, J ^f   Roman Sanchez P ^f   Serrado Iglesias, A ^f  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^c Hospital de Zafra   (Spain)

^d Hospital Universitario del Sureste de Madrid   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL XERAL CALDE   (Spain)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Beta blockers; Elderly; Heart failure

Indexed keywords

BISOPROLOL; CARVEDILOL;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; BRONCHOSPASM; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE DOSE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 76149108149     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: 15788989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medcli.2009.07.016     Document Type: Article

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