44.7 percent of angiotensin receptor blocker initiators were continuously persistent to original drug class at three years.

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Angiotensin Receptor Blockers (ARBs) have become one of our most popular hypertension drugs in recent years. And now they're facing a cancer scare. A new study in the British journal Lancet Oncology ...

Treating blood pressure with antihypertensives like blood vessel relaxers (ARB drugs) can provide increased life expectancy ...

There’s no end in sight for one of the largest prescription drug recalls in recent memory. The US Food and Drug Administration is continuing an investigation and recall of a class of drugs used by ...

In this rapidly evolving setting, clinicians are weighing the alleged harm of continuing these medications in patients for whom ACE inhibitors and ARBs have known benefit against the harm to their ...

LOS ANGELES — Angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB) are more effective than other antihypertensive medications in reducing the risk for post-stroke epilepsy (PSE), new research showed. Investigators ...

"In our study, we found that patients taking ARBs were more likely to die from suicide than similar patients taking ACE inhibitors (ACEIs), with an odds ratio of 1.63. This means that for every 100 ...

Patients who start their blood pressure treatment with ARB drugs continue with the same medicine to a greater extent than ...