Clinical Impact of Beta Blockers in Patients with Myocardial Infarction from the Korean National Health Insurance Database.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Whether beta blockers favorably impact the clinical outcome in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) remains in debate. We investigated the impact of beta blocker on major clinical outcomes during 2 years after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with AMI. METHODS:All patients with the first AMI treated with PCI for the period of 2005 to 2014 from the Korean National Health Insurance Service claims database were enrolled. We defined the regular user as medication possession ratio (MPR) ≥80% and non-user as MPR=0%. We compared the occurrence of all cause death, myocardial infarction (MI) and stroke according to adherence of beta-blockers. A 1:1 propensity score-matching was conducted to adjust for between-group differences. RESULTS:We ide

SUBMITTER: Won H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7234850 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature