Word: angina
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...heart and blood vessels, these drugs reduce both the rate at which the heart beats and the force of its contractions. Beta blockers were introduced in the U.S. in the 1970s and have caused much excitement. In addition to lowering blood pressure, they are used extensively to control angina and are commonly prescribed for irregular heart rhythms as well. They are now being studied to see if they can prevent death in people who have survived a heart attack. About 10% of survivors die in the year following an attack...
...operation usually relieves angina, the severe chest pain that develops when the heart muscle is not getting enough blood. Bypass proponents also feel that the operation reduces the chance of death from heart attack in many patients. From 1975 to 1980, some 540,000 bypasses were performed in the U.S., too many according to some critics, who feel that drug therapy is safer, cheaper (a bypass costs about $15,000) and as effective in many cases. Says Surgeon John Kirklin of the University of Alabama Hospitals in Birmingham, who performs an average of six bypasses a week: "Bypass grafting...
...inhibit the flow of calcium ions have attracted intense interest. Declares Boston's Braunwald: "Calcium blockers are not just another class of drugs that has come along. They lower blood pressure, they raise cardiac output in heart failure, they are effective in arrhythmias. They are also useful for angina. They're almost too good to be true...
...Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve marketing of calcium blockers within months. Excitement over their potential applications is so high that major pharmaceutical companies are bringing out their own brand names, mostly for angina sufferers...
...adherents assert that thousands suffer from less severe ecological "allergies." In many people, they say, these reactions are not immediately recognizable, masquerading instead as arthritis, alcoholism, headaches and depression. According to London's Sunday Times, Rossall in the past has been diagnosed as suffering from a pancreatic tumor, angina, coronary thrombosis, asthma, epilepsy and multiple sclerosis...