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Medical Forum / General / Nutrition / November 2004yet another useless drug
http://www.heartcenteronline.com/myheartdr/home/research-detail.cfm?reutersid=4840 Efficacy of blood pressure drug questioned advertisement Nov 08 (Reuters) - A leading drug used by millions of people to lower blood pressure does not prevent deaths from heart attacks or other cardiovascular problems as well as other treatments, researchers said on Friday. Atenolol, which is sold under the brand name Tenormin by drugs giant AstraZeneca, was first introduced in 1976. It is one of the most widely prescribed drugs of its kind. But Swedish scientists have questioned its benefits after reviewing the results of nine previous studies of the drug. "Our results cast doubt on atenolol as a suitable drug for hypertensive patients," Professor Lars Hjalmar Lindholm, of Umea University in Sweden, said in a report in The Lancet medical journal. Atenolol belongs to a class of drugs known as beta blockers, which are prescribed for high blood pressure, angina and to prevent repeat heart attacks. The drugs help relieve stress on the heart and slow its beat. Lindholm and his team examined the results of four studies that compared atenolol with a placebo, or dummy pill, and five that contrasted its effects with other blood pressure-lowering drugs. The research showed the drug was no better than a placebo in reducing deaths from heart attacks or heart disease. But in one study the drug reduced stroke more than in patients who were not receiving any treatment. "The main finding was that atenolol could not be shown to have the same preventive effects on cardiovascular disease as other common anti-hypertension drugs," Dr Bo Carlberg, who worked on the study, said in an interview. "Compared with the placebo, atenolol did not decrease all-cause mortality. It did not decrease cardiovascular mortality and did not decrease myocardial infraction (heart attack)," he added. The scientists said they were surprised there were so few studies that looked at atenolol on its own, rather than in combination with other drugs. They themselves examined the impact of atenolol only and did not look at other beta blockers. "Atenolol should not be a first-line drug for hypertension," said Carlberg, adding that it should also not be used as a comparative drug in studies to test the effects of new blood pressure-lowering drugs. Publish Date: November 08, 2004 ************** How many people have spent their hard earned cash to treat their conditons with a drug that was completely useless. And what side effects have the suffered from this useless drug. AstraZeneca should be shut down and heads should roll at the FDA. TC http://www.heartcenteronline.com/myheartdr/home/research-detail.cfm?reutersid=4840 > Efficacy of blood pressure drug questioned > advertisement Useless drugs are cheaper in Canada so they are more prevalent there. > http://www.heartcenteronline.com/myheartdr/home/research-detail.cfm?reutersid=4840 > > > > Efficacy of blood pressure drug questioned > > advertisement > > Useless drugs are cheaper in Canada so they are more prevalent there. f.ck off troll http://www.heartcenteronline.com/myheartdr/home/research-detail.cfm?reutersid=4840 > > > Efficacy of blood pressure drug questioned > > > advertisement > > > > Useless drugs are cheaper in Canada so they are more prevalent there. > > f.ck off troll You are in Scimednutrition Troll. Understand Troll, f.cking nutrition Troll. Unless you are suggesting that pills are low carb or high carb Troll, stop putting useless crap. > > "Robert" <RobertJ@hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:<10ovh28jdi9e4bf@corp.supernews.com>... [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Unless you are suggesting that pills are low carb or high carb Troll, stop > putting useless crap. Look, if you feel it is off topic or has no merit, shut the f.ck up and ignore it. No one else is objecting to my posting this kind of information. It has to do with the larger topic of science and medicine, and one of the reasonable alternatives to these useless drugs is just plain good nutrition. Hint: if you nead someone to explain things to you on an ongoing basis, then you don't belong here, it is way above your ability to function intellectually. You wanting to connect everything everyones posts to some idiotic, unrelated and nonsensical anti-canada rants *IS* off topic and has no merit and it is the worst of all possible trollish behaviors. Take your hate rants elsewhere. It is not appropriate in this ng. If you look around usenet I am sure that you can find an ng that caters to hate-filled and ignorant bigots. Post there all you want. Now, f.ck off, ya troll. TC > > > "Robert" <RobertJ@hotmail.com> wrote in message > > news:<10ovh28jdi9e4bf@corp.supernews.com>... http://www.heartcenteronline.com/myheartdr/home/research-detail.cfm?reutersid=4840 > > > > > Efficacy of blood pressure drug questioned > > > > > advertisement [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > > TC Sci.med Pharmacy Troll go there and stay there. > > "Robert" <RobertJ@hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:<10p0ul4r4mudo1a@corp.supernews.com>... [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] > > Sci.med Pharmacy Troll go there and stay there. Don't go away angry, just go away.... ya troll.... TC > > > "Robert" <RobertJ@hotmail.com> wrote in message > > news:<10p0ul4r4mudo1a@corp.supernews.com>... > > > > > "Robert" <RobertJ@hotmail.com> wrote in message > > news:<10ovh28jdi9e4bf@corp.supernews.com>... http://www.heartcenteronline.com/myheartdr/home/research-detail.cfm?reutersid=4840 > > > > > > > Efficacy of blood pressure drug questioned > > > > > > > advertisement [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > > TC Look above at your post and see how many people respond, just one person and that is me you troll. Everybody knows that you are a troll so they don't even respond to you. Knock it off and stop that useless sh.t. >http://www.heartcenteronline.com/myheartdr/home/research-detail.cfm?reutersid=4840 > [quoted text clipped - 54 lines] >How many people have spent their hard earned cash to treat their >conditons with a drug that was completely useless. A little premature for this conclusion? >And what side >effects have the suffered from this useless drug. Atenolol has relatively few side effects compared to other beta blockers, and the jury is not even impounded yet, to decide on its usefulness. >AstraZeneca should be shut down and heads should roll at the FDA. Note that this study looked at a beta blocker on its own. How many people take it on its own? This researcher said "Atenolol should not be a first-line drug for hypertension," Atenolol is just one of several derivatives of propranolol which has more side effects with most people. You really should wait until the peers comment on this study before rushing to slam this company. Remeber what they say about fools jumping in? |
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