Posts tagged with: chest pain
Perindopril
This drug belongs to a group of drugs known as ACE (angiotensin converting enzyme) inhibitors it is used to treat high blood pressure (hypertension) as well as for heart failure. Heart failure is a condition where the heart is unable to pump blood efficiently. The drug relaxes... [Read more]
Warfarin
Warfarin is an anticoagulant and used to prevent and treat area’s where the blood flow is the slowest, particular area’s are the leg and the pelvic veins. Clots can break away and travel through the blood stream lodging in the lungs where they then cause pulmonary... [Read more]
The Heart and Circulation Process
The blood that runs through our veins and arteries acts very much like a main road way system with many routes going to small villages or major city’s. Passing along this main road system are the vans and wagons that would be delivering to various shops, etc. Our vans... [Read more]
How Anti-anxiety Medication Works
All of us at one time, or another will experience feelings of not being able to cope whether this is due to the loss of a loved one, illness, or losing your job etc. they can all make you feel miserable, but as time goes on and things pick up we get ourselves back on track... [Read more]
How Anti-angina Medication Works
Angina is the outcome of too little oxygen reaching the heart muscle. Oxygen starvation is usually caused by the narrowing of blood vessels (coronary arteries) that carry both blood and oxygen to the heart muscle In classic angina pain usually occurs during exertion or emotional... [Read more]
Amlodipine
Amlodipine is marketed as Istin here in the United Kingdom (as besylate, mesylate or maleate) belongs to a class of drugs known as calcium channel antagonists. Which interfere with the conduction of signals in the muscles to the heart relaxing blood vessels, so that blood... [Read more]
