Women taking a diuretic plus a beta blocker were 21% more likely to die of cardiovascular disease during the 5.9 year follow-up than women taking NO blood pressure medicines even though the average systolic pressure was 15 points LOWER in the drug group than the no drug group (134 mm Hg vs 149 mm Hg) according to a 2004 study.

To say this the other way, women taking women taking NO blood pressure medicines were 18% LESS likely to die of cardiovascular disease during the 5.9 year follow-up than women taking a diuretic plus a beta blocker.

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Women taking a beta blocker were 15% less likely to die of cardiovascular disease during the 5.9 year follow-up than women taking NO blood pressure medicines according to a 2004 study.

The average systolic pressure was 11 points LOWER in the drug group than the no drug group (136 mm Hg vs 149 mm Hg).

To say this the other way, women taking women taking NO blood pressure medicines were 17% MORE likely to die of cardiovascular disease during the 5.9 year follow-up than women taking a beta blocker.

(YouTube videos are limited to 10 minutes, so I had to split the video into 2 parts.)

“… beta blocker therapy has been shown to cause… weight gain… and to significantly increase the risk of developing diabetes.”

— Franz Messerli, MD, European Heart Journal, 2003.

“… [In] patients over the age of 60, beta blockers did NOT reduce [heart attacks], cardiovascular mortality or [the total risk of death].”
— Franz Messerli, MD, European Heart Journal, 2003.

... [T]he risk of strokes was between two and four times higher in middle-aged patients on [the beta blocker] atenolol compared to [a diuretic].

— Franz Messerli, MD, European Heart Journal, 2003.

People given beta blockers were 10 to 24 times more like to dropout of studies due to fatigue, and 5 times more like to dropout of studies due to sexual dysfunction.

Beta blockers only prevent one stroke per year out of every 1400 patients given these drugs.

They only prevent one heart attack per year out of every 1400 patients given these drugs.

And they only prevent one death per year out of every 2500 patients given these drugs.

This was noted in a Letter to the Editor in JAMA by Franz Messerli, MD who has written several papers about the ineffectiveness of beta blockers.

Blood pressure medicine called beta blockers increase the risk of suicide by 60 percent as noted in a Letter to the Editor published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.