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Some blood pressure medicine may decrease the aneurysm rupture risk for people with high blood pressure
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Some blood pressure medicine may decrease the aneurysm rupture risk for people with high blood pressure

by American Heart Association Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A multi-center study of more than 3,000 people with high blood pressure and brain aneurysms found that the use of RAAS inhibitors, a class of blood pressure lowering medications, reduced the risk of an aneurysm rupture by 18%, according to new research published today in Hypertension journal. An aneurysm...

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Users of blood pressure medicine have a lower risk of dying from influenza and pneumonia

AARHUS UNIVERSITY Drugs to lower blood pressure of the type ACE inhibitors or angiotensin II receptor blockers reduce the mortality rate of influenza and pneumonia. This is the main conclusion of a new reassuring study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, which Christian Fynbo Christiansen and a number of Danish colleagues are behind....