Word: angina
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...Hismanal (an allergy drug) and Nizoral (an anti-fungal medication) in that bag? Together they can trigger fatal cardiac spasms. Taking a little Viagra to boost your love life? Make sure you're not also on nitroglycerin for angina. In the past two months, that combination has killed four men, including one who, the Food and Drug Administration revealed last week, complained of chest pains after having sex and was given nitroglycerin in the ambulance. Now the FDA is trying to figure out if other drugs, like the prostate medication Hytrin, don't mix with Viagra...
Until last week, I didn't worry much about heart disease. Although heart attacks, angina and cardiac arrest can strike without warning, the odds are in my favor: I'm not overweight, I don't smoke, my blood pressure is good, I eat a low-fat diet, and I get plenty of exercise. While my grandfather had a heart attack at 60, he lived to be 86. And my father, now 75, hasn't had any cardiac problems at all. My total cholesterol is just a little high at 200. My only real risk factor is (deep sigh...
Even though Wei suffered an angina attack the day before his speech and had been hospitalized in Canada, he stood before the glowing lights for one-and-a-half hours...
...released from prison for what Chinese officials say were medical reasons, suffered an angina attack on Tuesday and was hospitalized in Canada for heart tests before making his one-and-a-half hour public appearance at Harvard...
...necessarily more with Viagra. Known to chemists by the less evocative name of sildenafil (the word Viagra, redolent of both "vigor" and "Niagara," had been kicking around Pfizer for years, a brand name in search of a product), the drug began life as a heart medication designed to treat angina by increasing blood flow to the heart. Sildenafil, it turned out, wasn't so good at opening coronary arteries, but happy test subjects did notice increased blood flow to their penises, a side effect brought to Pfizer's attention when the test subjects were reluctant to return their leftover pills...