Cardiovascular Research
Pacemakers, not beta blockers, may be best for some heart failure patients
Published in Medical Device Business Week, November 29th, 2006
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have reported evidence to support a dramatic change in the way hundreds of thousands of Americans with a form of heart failure should be treated. In a follow up to previous work, Hopkins cardiologists say patients with non-systolic heart failure may benefit more from pacemakers to speed up the heartbeat rather than from continual, long-term use of beta blockers, drugs that slow down the heartbeat.
It is estimated that almost half of the 550,000 Americans newly diagnosed each year with heart failure have the non-systolic form.
"Cardiologists are constantly being forced to rethink heart failure because one size does not...
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