Effects of Controlled-Release Metoprolol on Total Mortality, Hospitalizations, and Well-being in Patients With Heart Failure The Metoprolol CR/XL Randomized Intervention Trial in Congestive Heart Failure (MERIT-HF)

Åke Hjalmarson, MD, PhD Sidney Goldstein, MD Björn Fagerberg, MD, PhD Hans Wedel, PhD Finn Waagstein, MD, PhD John Kjekshus, MD, PhD John Wikstrand, MD, PhD Dia El Allaf, MD Jirı́ Vı́tovec, MD, PhD Jan Aldershvile, MD, PhD Matti Halinen, MD, PhD Rainer Dietz, MD Karl-Ludwig Neuhaus, MD András Jánosi, MD, DSc Gudmundur Thorgeirsson, MD, PhD Peter H. J. M. Dunselman, MD, PhD Lars Gullestad, MD Jerzy Kuch, MD Johan Herlitz, MD, PhD Peter Rickenbacher, MD Stephen Ball, MD, PhD Stephen Gottlieb, MD Prakash Deedwania, MD for the MERIT-HF Study Group