Abstract
P4988 Beta-blockers in diabetes with stable coronary heart disease - a cause for concern?
European heart journal, Vol.40(Supplement_1)
10/01/2019
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehz746.0166
Abstract
Abstract
Background
Beta-blocker (BB) therapy is a cornerstone for the treatment of coronary heart disease (CHD). The evidence of the benefit from long-term BB therapy in diabetic patients with stable CHD is scarce. This meta-analysis summarises the evidence relating to the BB therapy in diabetic patients with stable CHD.
Methods
A meta-analysis was performed according to PRISMA and MOOSE guidelines for reporting of systematic reviews of observational studies. PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane central were searched and two authors independently screened studies for eligibility. The quality of studies was assessed with the Newcastle Ottawa scale. The primary outcome of interest was all-cause mortality, cardiovascular (CV) mortality and major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) in diabetic patients with and without BB therapy. A generic inverse variance model was used to pool the odds ratio or hazards ratio from included studies to calculate the overall effect estimate. The significance threshold was set at p-value <0.05. Heterogeneity was assessed by I2.
Results
Four non-randomized studies with 9,515 participants were selected for the analyses. Four studies were post-hoc analyses of randomised controlled trials, and 1 article was an analysis of a nationally representative survey. In a fixed effects model, BB therapy in diabetic patients with stable CHD was found to be associated with increased risk of CV mortality, and MACE (27%, and 32% respectively; p-value <0.05) and was not associated with a reduction in all-cause mortality (HR 1.12; 95% CI 0.94–1.33; p-value =0.22).
Conclusion
BB therapy in diabetic patients with stable CHD appears to be linked to higher mortality. Large randomised trials are needed in this population to confirm these findings.
Acknowledgement/Funding
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Details
- Title: Subtitle
- P4988 Beta-blockers in diabetes with stable coronary heart disease - a cause for concern?
- Creators
- A H Malik - New York Medical CollegeS Shetty - University of IowaK Kar - New York Medical CollegeR El Accaoui - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Abstract
- Publication Details
- European heart journal, Vol.40(Supplement_1)
- DOI
- 10.1093/eurheartj/ehz746.0166
- ISSN
- 0195-668X
- eISSN
- 1522-9645
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/01/2019
- Academic Unit
- Cardiovascular Medicine; Internal Medicine; Radiology
- Record Identifier
- 9984320090502771
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