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Meta-analysis: beta-blocker dose, heart rate reduction, and death in patients with heart failure.

McAlister FA, Wiebe N, Ezekowitz JA, Leung AA, Armstrong PW.

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Beta-blocker therapy and symptoms of depression, fatigue, and sexual dysfunction.

Ko DT, Hebert PR, Coffey CS, Sedrakyan A, Curtis JP, Krumholz HM.

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Beta-blocker treatment in heart failure.

Bouzamondo A, Hulot JS, Sanchez P, Cucherat M, Lechat P.

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A comparative analysis of the results from 4 trials of beta-blocker therapy for heart failure: BEST, CIBIS-II, MERIT-HF, and COPERNICUS.

Domanski MJ, Krause-Steinrauf H, Massie BM, Deedwania P, Follmann D, Kovar D, Murray D, Oren R, Rosenberg Y, Young J, Zile M, Eichhorn E; BEST Investigators.

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Systematic review: cardiac resynchronization in patients with symptomatic heart failure.

McAlister FA, Ezekowitz JA, Wiebe N, Rowe B, Spooner C, Crumley E, Hartling L, Klassen T, Abraham W.

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Analysis of randomized controlled trials on the effect of magnitude of heart rate reduction on clinical outcomes in patients with systolic chronic heart failure receiving beta-blockers.

Flannery G, Gehrig-Mills R, Billah B, Krum H.

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Do evidence-based treatments provide incremental benefits to patients with congestive heart failure already receiving angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors? A secondary analysis of one-year outcomes from the Assessment of Treatment with Lisinopril and Survival (ATLAS) study.

Majumdar SR, McAlister FA, Cree M, Chang WC, Packer M, Armstrong PW; ATLAS Study Group.

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Clinical effects of beta-adrenergic blockade in chronic heart failure: a meta-analysis of double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized trials.

Lechat P, Packer M, Chalon S, Cucherat M, Arab T, Boissel JP.

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[The use of beta blockers in heart failure: clinical studies]

Cobelli F.

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Relation of beta-blocker-induced heart rate lowering and cardioprotection in hypertension.

Bangalore S, Sawhney S, Messerli FH.

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Effect of beta-blockade on mortality in patients with heart failure: a meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials.

Heidenreich PA, Lee TT, Massie BM.

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Beta-blockers to reduce mortality in patients with systolic dysfunction: a meta-analysis.

Lee S, Spencer A.

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Are beta-blockers as efficacious in patients with diabetes mellitus as in patients without diabetes mellitus who have chronic heart failure? A meta-analysis of large-scale clinical trials.

Haas SJ, Vos T, Gilbert RE, Krum H.

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Cardiac resynchronization and death from progressive heart failure: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

Bradley DJ, Bradley EA, Baughman KL, Berger RD, Calkins H, Goodman SN, Kass DA, Powe NR.

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How should subgroup analyses affect clinical practice? Insights from the Metoprolol Succinate Controlled-Release/Extended-Release Randomized Intervention Trial in Heart Failure (MERIT-HF).

Wikstrand J, Wedel H, Ghali J, Deedwania P, Fagerberg B, Goldstein S, Gottlieb S, Hjalmarson A, Kjekshus J, Waagstein F.

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Extended-interval aminoglycoside administration for children: a meta-analysis.

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Aldosterone blockade and left ventricular dysfunction: a systematic review of randomized clinical trials.

Ezekowitz JA, McAlister FA.

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Mortality and morbidity reduction with Candesartan in patients with chronic heart failure and left ventricular systolic dysfunction: results of the CHARM low-left ventricular ejection fraction trials.

Young JB, Dunlap ME, Pfeffer MA, Probstfield JL, Cohen-Solal A, Dietz R, Granger CB, Hradec J, Kuch J, McKelvie RS, McMurray JJ, Michelson EL, Olofsson B, Ostergren J, Held P, Solomon SD, Yusuf S, Swedberg K; Candesartan in Heart failure Assessment of Reduction in Mortality and morbidity (CHARM) Investigators and Committees.

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