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On Thursday it was revealed in the issue of New England Journal of Medicine that new anti-psychotic drugs are similarly dangerous for heart as the older ones.
Tennessee Medicaid’s 15 years records were used to conclude the research. A number of 44,000 patients were taken using the older medicines, and 46,000 patients using the new medicines. The new drugs included drugs like Risperdal, made by New Brunswick, N.J.-based Johnson & Johnson Inc., and Zyprexa, made by Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly & Co. The old drugs used included haloperidol and type.
Records of 186,600 other peoples were also used for comparative studies. These people were having similar characteristics as the patients but were not on anti-psychotic drugs.
The study results clearly showed that the patients on anti-psychotic drugs had a higher risk of heart cardiac deaths. Risk rate was equal in patients of both classes, using new and old anti-psychotics. Concluded risk was 3 deaths per annum among 1000 patients.
Do you know which the most common cardiovascular disease?
When faced with this question most people would reply as Heart failure or Cardiac arrests but both Heart failure as well as Cardiac arrest are medical conditions, medical emergencies, caused by a different, very common ailment, known as blood pressure. Yes, an abnormality in your blood pressure is the root cause of all types of heart diseases. A report by the World Health Organization reveals that high blood pressure affects about 20% of the adult population and 25% of the children worldwide. Ironically one third ARE NOT EVEN AWARE.
