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Article: New Life-Saving Heart Attack Medication Identified; Valsartan therapy provides new treatment option for heart attack survivors proven to be as effective as ACE inhibitors, but combination of the two shows no additional benefit.
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- November 10, 2003
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BOSTON, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), who led a massive multi-center, international clinical trial, have demonstrated that a new medication is just as clinically effective as a proven ACE inhibitor in improving outcomes for heart attack patients.
Nearly half of the one million heart attacks that occur each year in the United States are repeat attacks. To lower the risk of recurrence, physicians typically prescribe ACE inhibitors. Just over ten years ago these popular blood pressure therapies were adopted as an international standard when BWH researchers found they dramatically improved survival in heart attack ...