The non-dihydropyridine class of calcium channel blocker.
I’d encourage lifestyle changes to reduce one’s blood pressure. Otherwise, consider one of the other alternatives.
Actual drug names for the non-dihydropyridine class at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_channel_blocker
Interestink. Thanx for posting
Thanks for posting. I checked and Amlodipine is not in the potential “bad” class.
I have done that. 300 pounds to 235 now. Goal 195.
I am on several blood pressure drugs but for the past three weeks most of my BP reads in 102/77 or similar. I am calling my doctor on Monday for a complete review of all current medications I am taking.
head medications can cause constipation which is one of the many factors in diverticulosis which most people develop to some extent anyway. as compared to heart and kidney failure from u treated high blood pressure. it’s a no brainer. By the way these drugs are not first line drugs for hypertension anyway.
One big problem in the study is that they did not check if the people had diverticlosis before they started taking the pill.
As for lifestyle changes... I agree. But they have a limited effect in severe high blood pressure, and I am old enough to remember when young people died of strokes and heart attacks from high blood pressure (and we still see a lot of this here in the Philippines where I live)
But all drugs have side effects.
Take a thiazide diuretic and ten percent of men become impotent.
Take lisinopril or ace1 blocker, and ten percent of people get a cough.
Take an ace2 blocker which are safe, unless they are manufactured overseas and contain toxic contaminents.
For the non-laboratory denizens, how about a
few drug names?
bkmk
Just read I think Peoples Pharmacy that statins cause diabetes.
Remem, people, our oversite people ARE NOT checking the incoming pills. NO NOT IN ANY WAY. The chinks seem to like to put cement in them :(
High blood pressure, lower death rates.
Heart failure patients with high systolic blood pressure had a lower death rate.
Mortality rates were more than 4X higher for those with systolic pressures of less than 120 in comparison to those who had pressure above 161.
These conclusions were gleaned from research of more than 48,000 heart failure patients seen in 259 USA hospitals between March 2003 and December 2004.
Journal of the American Medical Association Nov 8, 2006; 296 (18): 2217-2226
Systolic blood pressure at admission, clinical characteristics, and outcomes in patients hospitalized with acute heart failure.
https://scholars.duke.edu/display/pub745249