Study Faults Popular Hypertension Drug
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FRIDAY, Nov. 5 (HealthDayNews) -- Atenolol, a drug commonly prescribed to treat hypertension, doesn't prevent heart attacks or cardiovascular death any better than dummy drugs and is less effective than a wide variety of other blood pressure medications, a new study finds.
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One out of three American adults has hypertension. What you need to know
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A new study of heart disease patients finds that "normal" blood pressure may not be low enough.
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A study of recommended blood pressure drugs has produced a result even the researchers find hard to explain: Adding a calcium channel blocker to a diuretic was associated
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The diabetes drugs Actos and Avandia raise the risk of heart failure but do not increase the risk of heart-related death, U.S. researchers said on Thursday, confirming earlier findings.
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Patients given a mix of modern blood   pressure drugs are one-third less likely to develop diabetes   than those on older pills, researchers said on Wednesday.
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Surprising study results show that the popular heart drug doesn't live up to its claims  -  and three new trials are now underway
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NEW YORK  - As a treatment for high blood  pressure in black patients, no drug is really better than  another at reducing the risk of death and pressure-related  problems -- provided that the patient's goal blood pressure is  reached. That's where the drugs differ: it may be easier to  reach this goal with certain drugs rather than with others.
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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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Some high blood pressure in persons  over the age of 60 should be treated more aggressively,  according to a study published on Tuesday.
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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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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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A newer drug appeared to delay the progression of the most common form of diabetes a little longer than two older medications but also raised the risk of heart problems, weight gain and fractures, a large study has found.
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Survey: A majority of prescription drug takers don't purchase their medications online.
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A blood-thinning drug not approved for  the U.S. market because of questions about liver damage appears  to be as effective as other common therapies for preventing  strokes and recurring blood clots, according to studies  published on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK - Since Merck&#39;s Vioxx was pulled from the market for increasing the risk of heart attack and stroke in a long-term study, there has been heated debate over whether other, similar medicines, such as Pfizer&#39;s Celebrex and Bextra, carry similar risks
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A disappointing study of the heart drug Vytorin has led some doctors to reconsider what makes statin drugs so effective at fighting heart disease.