TY - JOUR T1 - Airwaves JF - Thorax JO - Thorax SP - 295 LP - 295 VL - 63 IS - 4 AU - Wisia Wedzicha Y1 - 2008/04/01 UR - http://thorax.bmj.com/content/63/4/295.2.abstract N2 - It is well known that β blockers reduce mortality in patients with cardiovascular disease. COPD is often complicated by cardiovascular disease and patients are often not treated with β blockers due to concern over possible worsening of airways obstruction, even though cardioselective β blockers have little deleterious effect on airway function. In this issue, Dransfield and colleagues report a study of patients with COPD hospitalised with an exacerbation. The authors show, after correcting for relevant confounders, that COPD patients treated with β blockers have a lower in-patient mortality, than those patients not … ER -