I am writing at the request of an unnamed commentator who went to the ban before reading about this very thing.
Once upon a time, some scientific research was carried out and it seemed that beta-blockers often cause general weakness, depression, and this is also a problem.
Doctors and patients were frightened together. Beta-blockers were even less likely to be prescribed.
Then we found out that those initial studies were not very good.
The topic is burning, so they quickly organized a huge review of 15 scientific studies, which affected 35,000 people.
It turned out that beta-blockers do not affect the development of depression, but weakness and problems with this were occasionally observed. But it’s not as scary as we thought at first. Everyone exhaled.
During the year, among 57 patients treated with beta-blockers, only one developed complaints of weakness. This is normal. And even very good.
And with this, one unfortunate person had problems among 199 patients treated during the year. It's not even funny. Some nonsense.
At the same time, we found that fat-soluble beta-blockers, which can penetrate the blood-brain barrier, do not provoke weakness or depression. So they were acquitted.
Scientists perked up and decided (already to be sure) to conduct a small study, specifically studying the effect of beta-blockers on that very thing.
It turned out that people have long heard about the harmful effects of beta-blockers on that very thing and are in a state of certain anxiety about this in advance. It was from anxiety, according to scientists, that these suspicious people had problems with this.
In short, then they solemnly announced that if beta-blockers have a slight effect, then it is not worth bothering and canceling luxury drugs. On that and a fairy tale... end.
