NEW YORK, July 31 (Praxis Press) Cardiovascular outcomes have not been compared in hypertensive patients treated with calcium channel blockers and in patients treated with older drugs. Hansson and ...

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Beta-blockers are about as safe and effective as calcium channel blockers. Digoxin is also good for controlling the heart rate, but it can lead to serious side effects.

Medication for heart disease can help manage and prevent the condition. These include beta-blockers, calcium channel blockers, and ACE inhibitors.

Both work by relaxing blood vessels. Other options include calcium channel blockers and diuretics, often called ‘water pills’.

Background The macrolide antibiotics clarithromycin and erythromycin may potentiate calcium-channel blockers by inhibiting cytochrome P450 isoenzyme 3A4. However, this potential drug interaction is ...

Nonselective calcium channel blockers have been explored for their potential to reduce tremors in individuals with ET. However, the evidence supporting their effectiveness is limited and mixed.

Adding diuretics rather than calcium channel blockers to renin-angiotensin-system-inhibitor (RASi) therapy may slow chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression while offering cardioprotection, a new ...

Calcium channel blockers (CCBs) are considered next in line for these patients. CCBs (specifically the nondihydropyridines) also have some angiotensin II-blocking activity.

Calcium channel blockers to the rescue Lueck and his colleagues were particularly interested in understanding this cycle as it held the potential to explain the muscular dysfunction in DM1.