Study Sees Risk in Two-Drug Hypertension Treatment
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Women treated for high blood pressure with a drug combination that included a calcium channel blocker had a higher risk of death than those given other drug therapies, a study said on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK  - In African-Americans with poorly controlled high blood pressure (hypertension) and high cholesterol, treatment with a single pill containing a blood pressure-lowering drug and a cholesterol-lowering drug may prove particularly useful, researchers say.
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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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WEDNESDAY, Dec. 8 (HealthDayNews) -- Two separate studies offer some good news about two drugs for the treatment of Parkinson's disease.
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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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High blood pressure may be more difficult to control in winter than in summer, research suggests.
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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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Some drugs that drop blood pressure can help prevent heart disease from getting worse in patients with lower blood pressure who would not routinely be given such medicine, researchers reported on Tuesday.
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A blood pressure drug is ineffective in reducing cardiovascular deaths, research suggests.
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A major trial comparing treatments to lower blood pressure has been stopped early after one therapy proved significantly more effective in preventing heart attacks and strokes, it was announced today.
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NEW ORLEANS -- A fixed-dose combination of two rarely used heart drugs cut death rates among black heart-failure patients almost in half, researchers reported Monday.
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People with high blood pressure seem to be more vulnerable to heart attacks when the temperature drops, new research shows. The findings, presented last week at a conference
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NEW YORK  - The risk of developing high blood pressure during pregnancy (gestational hypertension) is higher in pregnancies resulting from infertility treatments compared with those resulting from spontaneous conceptions.
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Estrogen-progestin pills double post-menopausal women&#39;s chances of developing dangerous blood clots, and the risk is even higher for overweight patients and those over 60, researchers say.
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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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Patients who took a popular combination of blood pressure drugs had a substantially higher cardiovascular disease death rate than those taking other hypertension drugs, according to a study published today.
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People with heart disease who  don&#39;t take their medications as prescribed risk suffering a  heart attack or other heart-related event, a new study shows.