September 17, 2012 — A new study shows that the effects of atenolol and metoprolol tartrate, 2 commonly used treatments for hypertension, are virtually identical in terms of preventing stroke ...

The use of propensity score matching yielded similar results in 11,176 new metoprolol tartrate users, who had similar demographic and clinical characteristics as 11,176 new atenolol users.

From their cohort of 233,272 adults (aged ≥66 years) who received a first outpatient prescription for metoprolol tartrate or atenolol, they matched 75,257 pairs for age (± 2 years), gender ...