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U.S. Task Force Issues Blood Pressure Guidelines

Posted 12 days ago by Drugs.com

TUESDAY, May 15 – "Team-based care" should be used to improve patients' blood pressure control, the U.S. Task Force on Community Preventive Services recommended on Tuesday. The recommendation is based on a review of 77 studies that showed improvements in patients' control of blood pressure when they received care from a team of health professionals – a primary care doctor supported by a pharmacist, nurse, dietitian, social worker, or community health worker – rather than a primary care doctor alone. The task force found that team-based care increased the percentage of patients with controlled blood pressure, led to a decrease in both systolic (top number) and diastolic (bottom number) blood pressure, and improved results in patients with diabetes and elevated levels of blood fats. Team members assist primary care doctors by providing support and sharing responsibility for high blood ... Read more

Accidental Medication Poisonings in Kids on the Rise

Posted 16 Sep 2011 by Drugs.com

FRIDAY, Sept. 16 – Despite ongoing prevention efforts, a growing number of young children are being accidentally poisoned with medications, according to new research. The study, which was based on data reported to the American Association of Poison Control Centers between 2001 and 2008, found that medication poisoning among children aged 5 and under increased by 22 percent, although the number of children in the United States in this age group rose by only 8 percent during the study period. "The problem of pediatric poisoning in the U.S. is getting worse, not better," Dr. Randall Bond, of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, said in a hospital news release. In conducting the study, which is scheduled for publication in the Journal of Pediatrics, the researchers reviewed information on over 544,000 children who landed in the emergency department due to medication poisoning ... Read more

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Two Different Heart Drugs May Work Equally Well for High-Risk Patients

Posted 6 Apr 2011 by Drugs.com

TUESDAY, April 5 – People with high blood pressure and impaired glucose tolerance seem to fare equally well when given two separate types of heart drugs, new research suggests. Although an angiotensin II receptor blocker (ARB) and a calcium channel blocker were both effective in this patient population, one difference did emerge, according to a presentation given Tuesday at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology in New Orleans: People taking Diovan (valsartan), an ARB, had a lower incidence of being hospitalized for congestive heart failure. "We could not find any differences between the two groups in terms of blood pressure control and hemoglobin A1c levels, and we couldn't find any difference in the primary composite endpoint between the two groups," said study author Dr. Toyoaki Murohara, a professor of cardiology at Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine in ... Read more

Some Antibiotics, Blood Pressure Meds a Bad Mix: Study

Posted 17 Jan 2011 by Drugs.com

MONDAY, Jan. 17 – Older people who are taking common blood pressure medications called calcium channel blockers face an increased risk of developing dangerously low blood pressure and possibly going into shock if they take certain antibiotics, Canadian researchers warn. "Two common antibiotics, erythromycin and clarithromycin, if given to patients taking calcium channel blockers, can increase the risk substantially of being hospitalized for low blood pressure," said lead researcher Dr. David Juurlink, a scientist at Sunnybrook Research Institute in Toronto. For patients taking erythromycin along with a calcium channel blocker the risk goes up almost sixfold, while it increases almost fourfold for patients taking clarithromycin, he said. Although the interaction between these drugs has been known for some 20 years, this is the first time the risk has been quantified, Juurlink said. ... Read more

More Evidence That Swings in Blood Pressure Raise Stroke Risk

Posted 15 Mar 2010 by Drugs.com

SUNDAY, March 14 --Following on recent, similar research, a large five-year study points to fluctuations in blood pressure over time as a key indicator of stroke risk. In the study, British researchers tracked the health of more than 19,000 patients taking either beta blockers or calcium channel blocker medication to curb high blood pressure. Patients who placed in the highest 10 percent in terms of swings in blood pressure between doctor visits had about four times the risk of stroke compared to those with the least variable blood pressure, the researchers reported. Similar results occurred when the researchers analyzed patients' risks for heart attack. Overall, patients who took calcium channel blockers had a 22 percent lower risk of stroke vs. those who took beta blockers, and differences in blood pressure variability between the two groups seemed to explain the gap in risk. The ... Read more

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