Researchers have announced that a drug commonly used to treat high blood pressure may have an alternate use - it may help prevent strokes. This preliminary information is based on studies done on animals.
Researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College detailed their findings in a recent press release. The drug in question, telmisartan, is currently used to treat high blood pressure.
It is already known that there is a link between high blood pressure and the risk of having a stroke. Therefore, researchers wanted to see whether or not high blood pressure medications used in combination with each other provided better results at lowering blood pressure. Just by lowering the blood pressure, the risk of stroke is also lower.
Testing their theory on rats, researchers fed rats a diet that was bound to induce strokes. They discovered that even though these rats were being fed a special diet designed to induce strokes, these rats were totally protected from having strokes while they were taking telmisartan, whether they took this drug alone, or in combination with another high blood pressure medicine named ramipril. (more…)
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