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View Post: Beta-blockers for heart patients a double-edged sword
22 Nov 2009 by Ani  
WASHINGTON - Researchers from University of Illinois have discovered that a particular class of heart medications called beta-blockers can have a helpful as well as harmful effect depending on their molecular activity. ... a professor of biochemistry, found that the amount of an enzyme present in neurons can affect the mechanism thought to cause cell death in Alzheimer's disease patients and may have applications for other diseases such as stroke and heart attack. ...
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View Post: Fake medicine to get Ontario's imprimatur : White Coat Underground
27 Nov 2009
Nitroglycerin can relieve chest pain but it doesn't prevent heart attacks the way aspirin, statins, and beta blockers do. But that's not what we do. We try to intervene early, before symptomatic heart disease develops, and if we cannot, ... This inflammation can eventually lead to plaque rupture, heart attack, stroke, kidney failure, impotence, blindness---you get the idea. When someone gets real medicine for hypertension and high cholesterol, we fight the bodies natural ...
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View Post: High Blood Pressure And Its Treatment - Cardio
18 hours ago by admin  
This in turn may damage your heart and kidney. High blood pressure may also cause heart attack or stroke. Treatment to high blood pressure starts with a change in life style. stop smoking and the use of any tobacco product. Regular exercise is an absolute must. ... Various types of drugs are prescribed for hypertension. They include diuretics, alpha blockers and beta blocker. Certain other varieties of drugs include calcium channel blockers and ACE inhibitors. ...
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View Post: Erectile dysfunction drug 'improves heart function in kids ...
18 Nov 2009 by ANI  
Washington, Nov 22 (ANI): Researchers from University of Illinois have discovered that a particular class of heart medications called beta-blockers can have a helpful as well as harmful effect depending on their molecular activity. The study showed that. ... Washington, Nov 6 (ANI): Poor kidney function may increase an individual's risk for suffering heart failure, heart attack, peripheral arterial disease and early death, reveals a new study. Researchers revealed that to ...
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View Post: ACC/AHA Release Revised Guidelines for the Prophylactic Use of ...
2 Nov 2009
Beta blockers are designed to help protect against heart attack around the time of surgery by lowering heart rate and helping to block the effects of stress hormones on the heart. The recommendation to continue beta blockers ...
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View Post: Do you agree that calcium channel blockers are the most dangerous ...
12 Nov 2009 by brianmcintyre1957  
If those don't work, you can try clonidine for CNS depression of cardiovascular system, or you can offer a beta blocker like Lopressor which works to slow the heart and decrease cardiac output hence pressure on arterial walls and ...
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View Post: Elderly Treated Less Aggressively for Heart Attack - myOptumHealth
16 Nov 2009
The analysis revealed that 86 percent of patients aged 80 and older received early beta blocker therapy, compared with 90 percent of patients aged 64 or younger. Only 43 percent of patients 80 and older received balloon angioplasty ...
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View Post: H Panji Irawan: Atrial Flutter
27 Nov 2009 by FX  
Noncardiac selective beta-adrenergic blocker. Sotalol is shown to be effective in the maintenance of sinus rhythm, even in patients with underlying structural heart disease. Ibutilide (Corvert) Newer class III antiarrhythmic agent that ... The major potential complication with atrial flutter (or atrial fibrillation) is neurologic insult, either transient ischemic attack or stroke. This risk can be minimized with proper anticoagulation. Consider patients with common type ...
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View Post: Taking beta-blockers before surgery can increase heart attack risk ...
10 Apr 2009
With surgical procedures known to put patients at an increased risk of heart problems, many doctors have made it standard practice to give their patients beta-blockers before surgery - even when the patient does not have pre-existing ...
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View Post: Round 2: Life After a Heart Attack: Hills of Pills
22 Oct 2009 by John Huegel  
Beta blockers counteract the stimulatory effects of adrenaline (epinephrine) on beta receptors, found in many tissues of the body including the nervous system and heart. When beta receptors are stimulated, the heart beats faster and ...
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