Beta-Blocker Evaluation in Survival Trial (BEST)

Summary

To determine if addition of a beta-blocker to standard therapy in Class III and Class IV heart failure patients reduced total mortality.

Timeline

Start

1994-06

Primary completion

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Completion

1999-09

Publications

• Background Design of the Beta-Blocker Evaluation Survival Trial (BEST). The BEST Steering Committee. Am J Cardiol. 1995 Jun 15;75(17):1220-3. doi: 10.1016/s0002-9149(99)80766-8.
• Background Beta-Blocker Evaluation of Survival Trial Investigators; Eichhorn EJ, Domanski MJ, Krause-Steinrauf H, Bristow MR, Lavori PW. A trial of the beta-blocker bucindolol in patients with advanced chronic heart failure. N Engl J Med. 2001 May 31;344(22):1659-67. doi: 10.1056/NEJM200105313442202.
• Background Aranda JM, Krause-Steinrauf HJ, Greenberg BH, Heng MK, Kosolcharoen PK, Renlund DG, Thaneemit-Chen S, White M, Cintron GB. Comparison of the beta blocker bucindolol in younger versus older patients with heart failure. Am J Cardiol. 2002 Jun 1;89(11):1322-6. doi: 10.1016/s0002-9149(02)02339-1. No abstract available.
• Background Anderson JL, Krause-Steinrauf H, Goldman S, Clemson BS, Domanski MJ, Hager WD, Murray DR, Mann DL, Massie BM, McNamara DM, Oren R, Rogers WJ; Beta-Blocker Evaluation of Survival Trial (BEST) Investigators. Failure of benefit and early hazard of bucindolol for Class IV heart failure. J Card Fail. 2003 Aug;9(4):266-77. doi: 10.1054/jcaf.2003.42.
• Background Domanski M, Krause-Steinrauf H, Deedwania P, Follmann D, Ghali JK, Gilbert E, Haffner S, Katz R, Lindenfeld J, Lowes BD, Martin W, McGrew F, Bristow MR; BEST Investigators. The effect of diabetes on outcomes of patients with advanced heart failure in the BEST trial. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2003 Sep 3;42(5):914-22. doi: 10.1016/s0735-1097(03)00856-8.
• Background Eichhorn EJ, Grayburn PA, Mayer SA, St John Sutton M, Appleton C, Plehn J, Oh J, Greenberg B, DeMaria A, Frantz R, Krause-Steinrauf H. Myocardial contractile reserve by dobutamine stress echocardiography predicts improvement in ejection fraction with beta-blockade in patients with heart failure: the Beta-Blocker Evaluation of Survival Trial (BEST). Circulation. 2003 Nov 11;108(19):2336-41. doi: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000097111.00170.7B. Epub 2003 Nov 3.
• Background Ghali JK, Krause-Steinrauf HJ, Adams KF, Khan SS, Rosenberg YD, Yancy CW, Young JB, Goldman S, Peberdy MA, Lindenfeld J. Gender differences in advanced heart failure: insights from the BEST study. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2003 Dec 17;42(12):2128-34. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2003.05.012.
• Background Lindenfeld J, Ghali JK, Krause-Steinrauf HJ, Khan S, Adams K, Goldman S, Peberdy MA, Yancy C, Thaneemit-Chen S, Larsen RL, Young J, Lowes B, Rosenberg YD; BEST Investigators. Hormone replacement therapy is associated with improved survival in women with advanced heart failure. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2003 Oct 1;42(7):1238-45. doi: 10.1016/s0735-1097(03)00938-0.
• Background Bristow MR, Krause-Steinrauf H, Nuzzo R, Liang CS, Lindenfeld J, Lowes BD, Hattler B, Abraham WT, Olson L, Krueger S, Thaneemit-Chen S, Hare JM, Loeb HS, Domanski MJ, Eichhorn EJ, Zelis R, Lavori P. Effect of baseline or changes in adrenergic activity on clinical outcomes in the beta-blocker evaluation of survival trial. Circulation. 2004 Sep 14;110(11):1437-42. doi: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000141297.50027.A4. Epub 2004 Aug 30.
• Background O'Connor CM, Gottlieb S, Bourque JM, Krause-Steinrauf H, Anand I, Anderson JL, Plehn JF, Silver MA, White M, Carson P; BEST Investigators. Impact of nonfatal myocardial infarction on outcomes in patients with advanced heart failure and the effect of bucindolol therapy. Am J Cardiol. 2005 Mar 1;95(5):558-64. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2004.11.001.
• Background Grayburn PA, Appleton CP, DeMaria AN, Greenberg B, Lowes B, Oh J, Plehn JF, Rahko P, St John Sutton M, Eichhorn EJ; BEST Trial Echocardiographic Substudy Investigators. Echocardiographic predictors of morbidity and mortality in patients with advanced heart failure: the Beta-blocker Evaluation of Survival Trial (BEST). J Am Coll Cardiol. 2005 Apr 5;45(7):1064-71. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2004.12.069.
• Kristensen SL, Rorth R, Jhund PS, Shen L, Lee MMY, Petrie MC, Kober L, McMurray JJV; BEST Investigators. Microvascular complications in diabetes patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction-insights from the Beta-blocker Evaluation of Survival Trial. Eur J Heart Fail. 2018 Nov;20(11):1549-1556. doi: 10.1002/ejhf.1201. Epub 2018 May 4.
• Shen L, Jhund PS, Mogensen UM, Kober L, Claggett B, Rogers JK, McMurray JJV. Re-Examination of the BEST Trial Using Composite Outcomes, Including Emergency Department Visits. JACC Heart Fail. 2017 Aug;5(8):591-599. doi: 10.1016/j.jchf.2017.04.005.
• Breathett K, Allen LA, Udelson J, Davis G, Bristow M. Changes in Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction Predict Survival and Hospitalization in Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction. Circ Heart Fail. 2016 Oct;9(10):e002962. doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.115.002962.
• Jones LG, Sin MK, Hage FG, Kheirbek RE, Morgan CJ, Zile MR, Wu WC, Deedwania P, Fonarow GC, Aronow WS, Prabhu SD, Fletcher RD, Ahmed A, Allman RM. Characteristics and outcomes of patients with advanced chronic systolic heart failure receiving care at the Veterans Affairs versus other hospitals: insights from the Beta-blocker Evaluation of Survival Trial (BEST). Circ Heart Fail. 2015 Jan;8(1):17-24. doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.114.001300. Epub 2014 Dec 5.
• Aleong RG, Sauer WH, Davis G, Bristow MR. New-onset atrial fibrillation predicts heart failure progression. Am J Med. 2014 Oct;127(10):963-71. doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2014.06.006. Epub 2014 Jun 12.
• Aleong RG, Sauer WH, Davis G, Murphy GA, Port JD, Anand IS, Fiuzat M, O'Connor CM, Abraham WT, Liggett SB, Bristow MR. Prevention of atrial fibrillation by bucindolol is dependent on the beta(1)389 Arg/Gly adrenergic receptor polymorphism. JACC Heart Fail. 2013 Aug;1(4):338-344. doi: 10.1016/j.jchf.2013.04.002.
• O'Connor CM, Fiuzat M, Carson PE, Anand IS, Plehn JF, Gottlieb SS, Silver MA, Lindenfeld J, Miller AB, White M, Walsh R, Nelson P, Medway A, Davis G, Robertson AD, Port JD, Carr J, Murphy GA, Lazzeroni LC, Abraham WT, Liggett SB, Bristow MR. Combinatorial pharmacogenetic interactions of bucindolol and beta1, alpha2C adrenergic receptor polymorphisms. PLoS One. 2012;7(10):e44324. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044324. Epub 2012 Oct 10.

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