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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY
Volume 61, Issue 14, Pages 1518-1526Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2013.01.020
Keywords
beta-blockers; heart failure; left bundle branch block; prognosis; resynchronization
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- Boston Scientific
- University of Rochester
- Danish Heart Association
- Lundbeck Foundation
- Helsefonden
- Arvid Nilssons Fond
- Knud Hoejgaard Fonden
- Medtronic
- St. Jude Medical
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Objectives This study sought to compare the effects of metoprolol and carvedilol in the MADIT-CRT (Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial With Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy) study. Background The impact of beta-blockers in heart failure (HF) patients with devices is uninvestigated. Methods All patients receiving either metoprolol or carvedilol in the MADIT-CRT study were identified and compared. Time-dependent Cox proportional hazard regression analyses were performed to assess differences in hospitalization for HF or death and ventricular arrhythmias. Results Hospitalization for HF or death occurred in 30% of the patients on metoprolol and in 23% on carvedilol. Treatment with carvedilol was associated with a significantly decreased risk of hospitalization for HF or death when compared with metoprolol (hazard ratio [HR]: 0.70, [95% confidence interval (CI): 0.57 to 0.87], p = 0.001). This reduction in risk was further attenuated in the subgroup of cardiac resynchronization therapy with implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (CRT-D) patients (HR: 0.61 [95% CI: 0.46 to 0.82], p = 0.001) and CRT-D patients with left bundle branch block (LBBB) (HR: 0.51 [95% CI: 0.35 to 0.76], p < 0.001). Ventricular arrhythmias occurred in 26% and in 22%, respectively, of the patients receiving metoprolol or carvedilol (HR: 0.80 [95% CI: 0.63 to 1.00], p = 0.050). General use of beta-blockers and adherence in this study was high, and a clear dose-dependent relationship was found in carvedilol, but not in metoprolol. Conclusions In HF patients in New York Heart Association functional class I and II and with wide QRS complexes, carvedilol was associated with a 30% reduction in hospitalizations for HF or death when compared with metoprolol. A novel beneficial and synergistic effect of carvedilol was seen in patients with CRT-D and LBBB. Furthermore, we found a pronounced dose-dependent relationship in carvedilol, but not in metoprolol. (MADIT-CRT: Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial With Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy; NCT00180271) (J Am Coll Cardiol 2013;61:1518-26) (C) 2013 by the American College of Cardiology Foundation
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