What Doctors Don't Tell YouBLOOD PRESSURE: It's enough to make your blood boil
Q I regularly take aspirin but, recently, I’ve been prescribed an antihypertensive. Is there any interaction between these drugs? - CH, Swindon
Losartan is one of a new breed of antihypertensives known as angiotensin II antagonists and already, as a new kid on the block, it's causing concern among doctors. ...
As its name implies, Zestril is supposed to put the spring back into the step of the elderly by treating high blood pressure and heart failure. Marketed by Zeneca, it is one of the powerful ACE in ...
Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors are a class of drugs commonly used to treat heart attack victims. As the name suggests, they work by blocking the action of angiotensin, the chemica ...
Cozaar (losartan potassium) is heralded by its manufacturer Merck Sharp & Dohme as being "the first of a new class" for treating hypertension, or high blood pressure. ...
DRY EYE: It could be the drugs
Heart failure is a catch-all term which simply means that your heart isn’t working quite as well as it should. A number of problems building up over time can result in a heart that can’t pump as well as it used to.
When a single drug doesn’t sort out a health issue, doctors tend to throw two at the problem. So medicine came up with the idea of hypertensive drug ‘teams’. A firm favourite is a thiazide diuretic (the oldest mainstay of hypertension treatment)...
Indeed, doctors are becoming increasingly worried about the damage they’re causing to patients’ lungs leading to sickness and death. “Iatrogenic respiratory disease is an important cause of patient morbidity and mortality,” warn doctors at the...
