Women taking a beta blocker were 15% LESS likely to die of cardiovascular disease than with no drugs

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Wednesday, August 05, 2009 5:19 pm Email this article
Women taking a beta blocker were 15% less likely to die of cardiovascular disease during the 5.9 year follow-up than women taking NO blood pressure medicines according to a 2004 study.

The average systolic pressure was 11 points LOWER in the drug group than the no drug group (136 mm Hg vs 149 mm Hg).

To say this the other way, women taking women taking NO blood pressure medicines were 17% MORE likely to die of cardiovascular disease during the 5.9 year follow-up than women taking a beta blocker.

(YouTube videos are limited to 10 minutes, so I had to split the video into 2 parts.) PDF version of this presentation can be downloaded from here

A PDF version of this presentation can be downloaded by clicking here or by clicking on the image below.

REFERENCE

Wassertheil-Smoller S, Psaty B, Greenland P, Oberman A, Kotchen T, Mouton C, Black H, Aragaki A, Trevisan M. Association between cardiovascular outcomes and antihypertensive drug treatment in older women. JAMA. 2004 Dec 15, 292(23):2849-59.

AUTHOR’S CONTACT INFORMATION

Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, PhD
Professor and Division Head, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health
Principal Investigator, Women’s Health Initiative
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health
1300 Morris Park Avenue
Belfer Building, Room 1312
Bronx, NY 10461
718-430-2358 phone
718-430-2359 phone
718-430-3076 fax
.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

http://www.aecom.yu.edu/home/faculty/profile.asp?id=5563

Articles on the same subject can be found here:

• Beta Blockers

• Blood Pressure

• Blood Pressure Drugs

• Blood Pressure Drugs INCREASED Death in Older women

• YouTube videos