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Article: Acetaminophen shows positive in vivo cardioprotective effects.
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- Science Letter
- Article date:
- December 14, 2004
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2004 DEC 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Long an under-studied yet widely used over-the-counter medication, acetaminophen over the last few years is becoming recognized for a range of potential therapeutic uses beyond headache and pain.
One promising area is cardiology, where researchers decided to test the "common wisdom" that acetaminophen had no potential in treating heart disease. This position has been popular in the medical community despite that fact that, "There are no in vivo reports on acetaminophen efficacy during myocardial infarction," a team from Rutgers University noted in the American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology.
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