the choice of β blocker for the treatment of chronic HF should be evidence-based. In this regard, only two agents should be considered in the United States: carvedilol and metoprolol CR/XL.

This section will deal primarily with bisoprolol, carvedilol, and metoprolol, which are three of the four β blockers tested in large mortality trials among HF patients and the only ones with a ...

You make a compelling case that metoprolol is a major cause of your cough now, but I don’t think it’s the only one.

Specifically, COPERNICUS (led in the UK by Professor Coats at Imperial) showed general efficacy of beta-blockers in heart failure; COMET (designed and led by Professor Poole-Wilson at Imperial) showed ...

I am a 70-year-old female in excellent health, and I have a very healthy diet and fitness regimen. But I have had a persistent dry cough for 20 or so years. After seeing many doctors, it was ...

The most common causes of a cough that lasts as long as yours are reflux, postnasal drip and asthma. The ENT can almost always diagnose postnasal drip with an endoscopy. However, I suspect something ...

I am a 70-year-old female in excellent health, and I have a very healthy diet and fitness regimen. But I have had a ...

The ACP guideline, published in Annals of Internal Medicine, includes three recommendations centered around monotherapy: ...

The American College of Physicians (ACP) has developed new recommendations to prevent episodic migraines in nonpregnant ...

With historical data showing migraine to be underdiagnosed and undertreated, new guidance from the American College of ...

Like most beta-blocker medicines ... MINAX XL contains 23.75 mg, 47.5 mg, 95 mg or 190 mg of metoprolol succinate as the active ingredient.