Posts tagged with: hypertension
Doxazosin
Doxazosin is classed as a antihypertensive vasodilator drug that relieves hypertension (high blood pressure)it does its job by relaxing the blood vessels, the knock on effect allows blood and oxygen to circulate more easily around the body, lowering blood pressure and reducing... [Read more]
Antihypertensive Drugs
Your blood pressure is ascertained by a machine that takes two reading The first measurement is called the systolic pressure and is measured while the heart’s ventricles are contracting, this reading is normally higher than the second one which is known as the diastolic... [Read more]
Dark Chocolate and Hypertension Update
Well back in June 2009 I posted about the benefits eating dark chocolate given to those who suffered from high blood pressure. In the post I wrote of how I had tried eating the chocolate to see if the claim was true. It turned out to be just that (true) it did actually... [Read more]
Indoramin
Indoramin Hydrochloride (baratol) a selective alpha blocker drug, is a round, deep-scored, tablet and comes in a doseage of 20mg 25mg and 50mg which is impressed on one side of each tablet respectivly. Indoramin is used to treat high blood pressure (hypertension).Indoramin... [Read more]
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]
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]
Frusemide
Furosemide/Frusemide is a powerful short-acting loop diuretic which increases the amount of water that you pass out from your kidneys the medication it’s self has been around for the last 20 years or so. It is used to treat an accumulation of fluid in the tissue spaces... [Read more]
How Vasodilators Work
Vasodilators are drugs that widen blood vessels. Improving blood flow from narrowing blood vessels taking much needed oxygen levels to areas of the body that could be at risk. Angina is one such risk, caused by the narrowing of the coronary arteries. In angina dilation of... [Read more]
Captopril
Captopril (rINN) (pronounced /ˈkæptəprɪl/) is an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (ACE inhibitor) used for the treatment of hypertension and some types of congestive heart failure. The drug works by relaxing the blood vessels, allowing them to dilate... [Read more]
Enalapril
Enalapril is an angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor used in the treatment of hypertension and some types of chronic heart failure, as well as being used for patients following a heart attack. ACE is an enzyme in the body that causes the formation of angiotensin... [Read more]
