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There were two extreme outliers&#44; although the effect of removing these trials from the analysis was not reported&#46;</p><p id="par0060" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Selection bias was difficult to assess because of poor reporting in the included studies&#46; The risk of detection bias was considered to be high&#44; but that of attrition bias was low&#44; since there were few losses to follow-up&#46; The risk of reporting bias was considered to be high since most studies did not report withdrawal due to adverse effects&#44; as was the potential for publication bias&#44; due to the existence of the asymmetry of funnel plots&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0025" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0045">Conclusions</span><p id="par0065" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Beta-1 selective blockers as monotherapy lowered systolic&#47;diastolic BP by an average of 10&#47;8 mmHg&#44; PP by 2 mmHg and HR by 11 bpm&#46; 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although differences in the methodologies of these reviews should be borne in mind&#46; When comparing subclasses&#44; it is also important to consider tolerability and persistence&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0080"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6</span></a> effects on central BP and metabolic effects&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0085"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">7</span></a> as these aspects appear to favor the nonselective beta blocker carvedilol and beta-1 selective beta blockers&#44; particularly nebivolol&#46;</p><p id="par0085" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The choice of an antihypertensive drug should take into account its efficacy in reducing BP&#44; its other effects&#44; and the patient&#39;s comorbidities&#46; In the 2013 European guidelines for the management of hypertension beta blockers are one of the first-line drug classes recommended as monotherapy&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0090"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">8</span></a> although with the caveat that these drugs have not been shown to reduce mortality and have less benefit in preventing target organ damage<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0095"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">9</span></a> and cardiovascular events&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0100"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">10</span></a></p></span><span id="sec0040" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0060">Ethical disclosures</span><span id="sec0045" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0065">Protection of human and animal subjects</span><p id="par0090" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors declare that no experiments were performed on humans or animals for this study&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0050" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0070">Confidentiality of data</span><p id="par0095" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors declare that they have followed the protocols of their work center on the publication of patient data&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0055" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0075">Right to privacy and informed consent</span><p id="par0100" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The authors have obtained the written informed consent of the patients or subjects mentioned in the article&#46; 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Evidenced-Based Cardiology
Cochrane Corner: Antihypertensive efficacy of beta-1 selective beta blockers for primary hypertension
Cochrane Corner: eficácia anti-hipertensora dos betabloqueadores seletivos beta-1 na hipertensão essencial
Luís Nogueira-Silvaa,b,c,
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luisnogueirasilva@gmail.com

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, Pedro Sousa Marquesa, Maria João Limaa
a Serviço de Medicina Interna, Centro Hospitalar S. João EPE, Porto, Portugal
b Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Sistemas de Informação em Saúde (CINTESIS), Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
c Unidade do Porto da Cochrane Portugal, Rede Iberoamericana da Cochrane, Porto, Portugal
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MEDLINE&#44; EMBASE&#44; the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials &#40;CENTRAL&#41;&#44; the Cochrane Hypertension Group Specialised Register&#44; and ClinicalTrials&#46;gov up to October 15&#44; 2015&#44; as well as the references of published articles&#46;</p><p id="par0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Two authors independently confirmed the inclusion of studies and extracted the data&#44; and discrepancies were resolved by discussion or with the assistance of a third reviewer when necessary&#46; The risk of bias was assessed&#46;</p><p id="par0035" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The results are presented as mean differences in BP&#44; PP and HR with 95&#37; confidence intervals &#40;CI&#41; and as risk ratios &#40;RR&#41; for withdrawal due to adverse effects&#46;</p><p id="par0040" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The meta-analysis was performed using a fixed-effects model unless significant between-study heterogeneity was present&#44; in which case the random-effects model was used&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0020" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0040">Results</span><p id="par0045" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">A total of 56 trials were identified &#40;26 parallel and 30 cross-over&#41; 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estimated by pooling trials&#44; since no significant differences were found between different dosages &#40;5-20 mg&#47;day&#41;&#46; Atenolol&#44; at doses of 50 mg &#40;recommended starting dose&#41; and 100 mg&#44; led to reductions of 13&#47;11 mmHg&#59; comparisons between these two doses were inconclusive&#44; although subgroup analysis showed a fall of 10&#47;8 mmHg for a dose of 50 mg&#47;day and of 15&#47;13 mmHg for a dose of 100 mg&#47;day&#46; One trial was identified as an extreme outlier&#59; if this outlier were removed&#44; the overall decrease from doses of 50 mg&#47;day and 100 mg&#47;day was 11&#47;9 mmHg&#46; For metoprolol&#44; pooled results of doses between 100 mg&#47;day and 400 mg&#47;day showed a decrease of 9&#47;8 mmHg&#44; without a significant dose-response effect&#59; the recommended starting dose of 100 mg&#47;day led to a reduction of 5&#47;5 mmHg&#46; The mean BP lowering effect of bisoprolol was 11&#47;8 mmHg in pooled results&#44; without significant differences between doses from 5 to 20 mg&#47;day&#46; There were two extreme outliers&#44; although the effect of removing these trials from the analysis was not reported&#46;</p><p id="par0060" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Selection bias was difficult to assess because of poor reporting in the included studies&#46; The risk of detection bias was considered to be high&#44; but that of attrition bias was low&#44; since there were few losses to follow-up&#46; The risk of reporting bias was considered to be high since most studies did not report withdrawal due to adverse effects&#44; as was the potential for publication bias&#44; due to the existence of the asymmetry of funnel plots&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0025" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0045">Conclusions</span><p id="par0065" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Beta-1 selective blockers as monotherapy lowered systolic&#47;diastolic BP by an average of 10&#47;8 mmHg&#44; PP by 2 mmHg and HR by 11 bpm&#46; No difference was found between treatment and placebo regarding withdrawal due to adverse effects&#44; and no graded dose-response effect was seen over the recommended dose range&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0030" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0050">Comment</span><p id="par0070" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">This Cochrane systematic review analyzes a large number of trials with many participants to study the effect of beta-1 selective beta blockers&#44; as a group and individually&#46; This Cochrane Corner focuses on the drugs available on the market in Portugal&#46; It presents the results on BP&#44; PP and HR&#44; and adverse effects by drug and by dose level&#46; It is clear that increasing the dose does not necessarily increase the effect&#44; in contrast to what would empirically be expected&#46;</p><p id="par0075" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Despite the large number of trials included&#44; the conclusions of the review point to low quality of evidence&#44; mainly due to the significant heterogeneity in the trials and the presence of extreme outliers that could exaggerate the measured outcome effect&#46; There were considerable methodological differences between trials&#44; due to the long time intervals between the development and study of different drugs&#44; as well as differences in time of BP measurement &#40;peak or trough hours of plasma concentrations&#41; and in study populations&#46; Furthermore&#44; BP was only measured in the physician&#39;s office&#44; whereas ambulatory BP measurement is currently recommended&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0035" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0055">Clinical implications</span><p id="par0080" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">Beta blockers were originally developed to treat angina but were also shown to be effective antihypertensive drugs&#46; The mechanism by which they lower BP is not fully understood&#44; and the fact that different beta blockers act on different receptors justifies a systematic review of beta-1 selective beta blockers separately from nonselective&#44;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0065"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a> partial agonist<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0070"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4</span></a> and dual alpha and beta blockers&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0075"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5</span></a> An overall assessment of the Cochrane systematic reviews on these different drugs suggests that beta-1 selective beta blockers are more efficacious than partial agonist and dual alpha and beta blockers and have similar efficacy to nonselective beta blockers&#44; 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