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Basic drugs for cardiovascular system

This is especially true in the treatment of the elderly, new drugs with promising advertising. Unfortunately, in the pharmacy network has accumulated a lot of "cardiovascular drugs" without sufficient clinical trials.

Therefore, to prescribe such remedies for the treatment is not recommended, they cannot be expected to result. Apparently overproduction more based on financial company profits and not on the pursuit of health.

The list of such drugs is constantly updated and available for physicians of all specialties. Patients can feel the improvement since convinced themselves that.

Such means are, for example: Cavinton and Vinpocetine (in the US it as medicine, and biological food Supplement in Japan stopped selling in pharmacies), Actovegin, Cerebrolysin, Validol (tablet to freshen breath).

Coronary heart disease needs to be treated by means of expanding coronary vessels (vasodilators). Widely used drugs of the group of nitrates. Developed new forms of drugs in the form of ointment, plaster for application on the skin.

A large group of calcium antagonists allows you to find the right drug, given that by reducing the penetration of calcium into myocytes occurs a marked expansion of coronary vessels. In clinical practice, with success, drugs used in the groups of Verapamil, Nifedipine, Diltiazem.

There are options for emergency care and prolonged action. β-blockers reduce the heart muscle's need for oxygen and allow time for scarring of the zone of infarction, the development of collateral vessels.

During the recovery tools are used, which improves metabolism inside the cells, vitamins, anabolic hormones.

Means for reducing the pressure of

In the therapy of hypertension and atherosclerosis necessary drugs acting on the vascular wall of the arteries. The removal of the high tone helps to reduce the pressure. Long-term use of statins helps to keep the level of low density lipoprotein and prevents the deposition of cholesterol plaques in the major vessels.

Medicine does not waive such older drugs as Papaverine, Magnesium sulfate. They are of limited use only hypertensive crises. Act on the blood vessels through decreasing the contractility of the muscle.