Association between infertility and incident onset of systemic autoimmune rheumatic disease after childbirth: a population-based cohort study
Scime NV, Velez MP, Choi MY, Ray JG, Boblitz A, Brown HK. Hum Reprod. 2024; deae253.
Background — It is uncertain whether beta-blockers (BBs) are beneficial in contemporary stable patients with prior myocardial infarction (MI). Therefore, we sought to examine the effectiveness of BB use in this population.
Methods — We conducted a cohort study with the use of administrative databases of patients ≥ 65 years of age, alive on April 1, 2012 (index date) with a hospital discharge diagnosis of MI within the previous 3 years. The primary outcome was time to death or hospitalization for MI or angina 1 year after the index date, with inverse probability of treatment weighting.
Results — We included 33,811 patients with prior MI, of whom 21,440 (63.4%) were dispensed a BB. The median age was 78 years, and 56% were male. There was no difference in the 1-year hazard of death/hospitalization for MI or angina (14.8% vs 14.7%, hazard ratio 1.00, 95% confidence interval 0.94-1.07; P = 0.90) in those receiving vs not receiving BB. Similarly, there was no difference in the individual end points in composite nor in 3-year outcomes. Subgroup analysis by age, sex, MI timing, MI type, heart failure, and atrial fibrillation found no benefit. Patients with a history of revascularisation treated with BBs had a lower rate of the composite outcome compared with those without such history ( P = 0.006 for interaction) at 1 year but not at 3 years.
Conclusions — In this large contemporary population-based observational study of older stable patients with prior MI, BBs were not associated with a reduction in major cardiovascular events or mortality in those with MI within the previous 3 years. This study supports the need to conduct contemporary clinical trials evaluating the use of BBs after MI.
Jackevicius CA, Krumholz HM, Ross JS, Koh M, Chong A, Austin PC, Stukel TA, Azizi P, Ko DT. Can J Cardiol. 2020; 36(10):1633-40. Epub 2020 Feb 4.
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