Hypertension Drugs Serve Another Role
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Giving a hypertension drug to people with heart disease saves lives even if they have normal blood pressure, and a calcium channel blocker drug is more effective than an ACE inhibitor, a new study finds.
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Scientists discover a new way to regulate blood pressure, offering hopes of new drugs to combat strokes and heart attacks.
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A leading drug used by millions of people to lower blood pressure does not prevent deaths from heart attacks or other cardiovascular problems as well as other treatments, researchers said on Friday.
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Popular painkillers such as aspirin, ibuprofen and acetaminophen can raise blood pressure and thus the risk of heart disease among men, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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A major trial looking at the best drugs to treat high blood pressure has been stopped early because the results were so good. Experts believe this could have major implications for the treatment of millions
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Patients taking a combination of newer  blood pressure drugs have a much better chance of avoiding  heart attacks and stroke than those on older pills, a British  researcher leading a major clinical study said on Wednesday.
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NEW YORK  - Physicians should be on the  lookout for signs of increased risk for high blood pressure  (hypertension) in patients referred for moderate hypertension,  but who have normal or high-normal blood readings on repeated  testing, Italian researchers advise.
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More Americans have their high blood pressure under control, reducing their risk of heart attack, stroke and other diseases, according to a new study released by the American Heart Association on Monday.
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NEW YORK  - One half of a cup of soy nuts each day may work as well as anti-hypertension medication to lower blood pressure, a new study in postmenopausal women demonstrates.
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Can Prozac help you kick cocaine? Can Ritalin? How about a blood pressure pill or medicine for muscle spasms? If you're an alcoholic, could you get help staying sober by taking an anti-nausea drug used by cancer patients?    Scientists are exploring those questions right now. In fact, in the field of addiction medicine, one of the hottest sources of new drugs is .....
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Treating high blood pressure would  save lives and pay for itself, experts said on Tuesday.
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A new study points to potentially deadly side effects for older women who combine two popular blood pressure drugs. The study found that women who used diuretics along with calcium channel blockers had nearly
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By EMMA ROSS    MUNICH, Germany  -- Scientists have unraveled one of the mysteries of precisely how a popular type of blood pressure pill protects against heart attacks, showing it not only lowers blood pressure but also directly improves the health of the artery walls.    Doctors had suspected that blood pressure reduction alone could not explain the whole benefit of the pills, called angiotensin converting enzyme, or ACE, inhibitors, because studies have shown they prevented heart attacks and deaths even in patients with normal blood pressure or those whose high blood pressure did not budge...
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Patients with coronary artery disease may benefit from taking a drug to lower blood pressure, even if their blood pressures are just about &quot;normal,&quot; a Cleveland Clinic-led study has found.
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A GlaxoSmithKline  blood pressure medicine proved significantly better in keeping blood sugar levels from rising in diabetics than another widely used member of the beta blocker family of hypertension drugs, according to a large clinical trial.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 2) There is a warning for older women about the potential danger of combining two popular blood pressure drugs.
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A blood pressure drug is ineffective in reducing cardiovascular deaths, research suggests.