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There are many drugs which are prescribed to people suffering from heart diseases. The patients together with the individuals who care for them should understand the meds, follow the labels and also recognize the common side effects. If a person has a heart disease, high cholesterol or high blood pressure should be on one or more medications to control these. Most common medicines include;
Anticoagulants; These types of medicines help to prevent harmful clots from being formed in the blood vessels and they also prevent clots from enlarging and causing serious problems in the body of a person. Examples include dabigatran, enoxaparin, heparin, rivaroxaban, and warfarin. Doctors prescribe them to individuals at risk of stroke where blood clots are formed at heart and move to the brain.
Antiplatelet medications; these medicines keep blood clots from getting formed through preventing blood platelets from sticking together. Examples are aspirin, clopidogrel, dipyridamole, prasugrel, ticagrelor. Doctors prescribe them to individuals who have had strokes, heart attacks, chest pain and little strokes. People with plaque buildup in their blood vessels but they lack large obstruction in their artery as yet (Marso, Steven & et al, 2016).
Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) Inhibitors; these type of medicine expands blood vessels allowing blood to flow more easily and this makes the heart to work easier and more efficiently. Examples include captopril, cilazapril, enalapril and quinapril. Doctors prescribe them to individuals with high blood pressure and heart failures.
Angiotensin receptor blockers (called ARBs); these types of medicines expands blood vessels and allows blood to flow with ease and this makes the heart to work more easily and effectively. Examples include candesartan, irbesartan and iosartan. They are prescribed to individuals with heart failures and high blood pressure.
Beta blockers; This is the type of medicine which decreases the heart rate, which lowers the blood pressure making the heart beat with less force and more slowly. They include atenolol, bisoprolol, metoprolol, and sotalol. They are prescribed to people with irregular heartbeats and high blood pressure. They are also used to prevent future heart attacks.
Calcium channel blockers; They decrease the heart rate, lowering blood pressure and making heart beat slowly with less force. They include felodipine, nifedipine, verapamil and isradipine. Doctors prescribe them to individuals with high blood pressure, irregular heart rhythms and chest pains.
Digoxin; they belong to a group of medicines known as cardiac glycosides. These medicines increase the energy of heart contractions and which can benefit the heart from irregular heartbeats and heart failures. They are used to treat heart failures and atrial fibrillations. It strengthens the force of heart beats and it belongs to a group of medicines called cardiac glycosides.
Diuretics; Such medicines make the body lose extra water and salts through urination. It assists to relieve hearts load, decreases fluid buildup in the lungs and other body parts such as legs and ankles. They are used to treat high blood pressure, oedema, caused by heart failures, liver failure and kidney failures.
Antianginal drugs; they are used to manage angina by either reducing the metabolic demand of the heart or improving the perfusion of the myocardium, or both. They slow the heart rate hence reducing the heart metabolic demand. Doctors administer them to patients with heart attacks, high blood pressure and heart failures.
Anti-arrhythmic drugs; they treat abnormal heart rhythms resulting from irregular electrical activities in the heart. They include amiodarone, flecainide and sotalol. Doctors administer them to people with abnormal heart rhythms (Romero, José Rafael & et al, 2014).
Work cited
Marso, Steven P., et al. “Liraglutide and cardiovascular outcomes in type 2 diabetes.” New England Journal of Medicine 375.4 (2016): 311-322.
Romero, José Rafael, et al. “Risk factors, stroke prevention treatments, and prevalence of cerebral microbleeds in the Framingham Heart Study.” Stroke 45.5 (2014): 1492-1494.
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