A new study from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine questions the practice of giving heart-healthy patients blood pressure drugs before surgeries that do not involve the heart. Patients with no heart risk factors who were given a beta-blocker were 1.2 times more likely to die and develop dangerously low blood pressure during the study period than those not given the drug. Via U.S. News Health. Posted May 27, 2015.
–Alanna McCatty
