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Article: HEART DISEASE BLOOD PRESSURE PILLS CAN LOWER SOME OF THE RISKS.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- November 11, 1999
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HEART DISEASE Widely used blood pressure pills called ACE inhibitors can lower the risk of heart attacks and death by nearly one-quarter in people with bad hearts or diabetes, and they may become routine treatment for everyone with these common conditions, researchers say.
The study, released yesterday, suggests that ACE inhibitors should be added to the fistful of pills - typically aspirin, beta blockers and cholesterol-lowering drugs - that are already recommended for people with bad hearts.
``This extends the use of ACE inhibitors in a massively broad way,'' said Dr. Peter Sleight of Oxford University in England, one of the researchers.
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