Blood Pressure Medications

Drugs used regularly in the long-term care population may help prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection and poor COVID-19 outcomes, investigators say.

A combination of aspirin, statins and at least two blood pressure drugs can be given separately or as a polypill, investigators say. Benefits were seen with different blood pressure levels, cholesterol...

Two common choices for treating high blood pressure do a good job of preventing related cardiovascular events. But one drug class is less associated with swelling, cough, pancreas inflammation and gastrointestinal...

Reinvigorating the use of first-line therapies such as statins, metformin, ACE inhibitors or ARB is key to getting care and outcomes back on track, investigators say.

Treatment with blood pressure-lowering medications should be a cornerstone of cardiovascular risk prevention — and not based solely on prior history of cardiovascular disease or blood pressure status,...

Adults who took a daily combination pill containing statins and blood-pressure–lowering drugs, plus daily aspirin, were less likely to experience heart attack, stroke, and death from cardiovascular causes.

CDC updates COVID vaccine information for healthcare workers … Mild-to-moderate COVID-19 ‘highly unlikely’ to be infectious after day 10: study … Certain blood pressure meds tied to lower mortality...

Patients over age 80 who were not candidates for standard anticoagulant doses due to bleeding risk experienced fewer blood clots and strokes with a low daily dose of the drug edoxaban.

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