Q: Can patients with COPD or asthma take a beta-blocker?

Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine

Volumn 77, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 498-499

  Navas, Elsy Viviana ^a   Taylor, David O ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ADULT; ASTHMA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; NOTE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMPLICATION; CONTRAINDICATIONS;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ADULT; ASTHMA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE;

EID: 77956547383     PISSN: 08911150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3949/ccjm.77a.09133     Document Type: Note

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