How a 30-year-old drug helps prevent heart-attack damage

[ScienceRocks]

How a 30-year-old drug helps prevent heart-attack damage
Michael Franco

Much like in the case of strokes, the time immediately after a heart attack provides a critical window in which damage to the body can be minimized. Researchers in Madrid have just figured out how a drug that's been around for decades helps doctors use that time to best advantage.

The drug is known as metoprolol and it is an inexpensive beta-blocker, a class of drugs that lower blood pressure by suppressing the hormone epinephrine, also known as adrenaline. In 2013, a team from the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC) in Madrid conducted clinical trials with metoprolol and found that it could reduce the amount of injury sustained by the heart during an acute myocardial infarction (heart attack), a blockage in a coronary artery that cuts off the heart's blood supply.

How a 30-year-old drug helps prevent heart-attack damage

Science is going to help a lot of people once again!

 

[MisterBeale]

How about a better idea?

Don't live a shit lifestyle and get one in the first place.



The elites would steal your own air and brainwash you into thinking science had found a way for you to live. . . at a price.

 

[westwall]

How a 30-year-old drug helps prevent heart-attack damage
Michael Franco

Much like in the case of strokes, the time immediately after a heart attack provides a critical window in which damage to the body can be minimized. Researchers in Madrid have just figured out how a drug that's been around for decades helps doctors use that time to best advantage.

The drug is known as metoprolol and it is an inexpensive beta-blocker, a class of drugs that lower blood pressure by suppressing the hormone epinephrine, also known as adrenaline. In 2013, a team from the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC) in Madrid conducted clinical trials with metoprolol and found that it could reduce the amount of injury sustained by the heart during an acute myocardial infarction (heart attack), a blockage in a coronary artery that cuts off the heart's blood supply.

How a 30-year-old drug helps prevent heart-attack damage

Science is going to help a lot of people once again!

Yeah....MEDICAL Science. Climate science has been responsible for more misery than good however. Thanks for playing!

 

[Old Rocks]

How a 30-year-old drug helps prevent heart-attack damage
Michael Franco

Much like in the case of strokes, the time immediately after a heart attack provides a critical window in which damage to the body can be minimized. Researchers in Madrid have just figured out how a drug that's been around for decades helps doctors use that time to best advantage.

The drug is known as metoprolol and it is an inexpensive beta-blocker, a class of drugs that lower blood pressure by suppressing the hormone epinephrine, also known as adrenaline. In 2013, a team from the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC) in Madrid conducted clinical trials with metoprolol and found that it could reduce the amount of injury sustained by the heart during an acute myocardial infarction (heart attack), a blockage in a coronary artery that cuts off the heart's blood supply.

How a 30-year-old drug helps prevent heart-attack damage

Science is going to help a lot of people once again!

Yeah....MEDICAL Science. Climate science has been responsible for more misery than good however. Thanks for playing!

Typical Luddite, thinks knowledge is the source of misery.

 

[westwall]

How a 30-year-old drug helps prevent heart-attack damage
Michael Franco

Much like in the case of strokes, the time immediately after a heart attack provides a critical window in which damage to the body can be minimized. Researchers in Madrid have just figured out how a drug that's been around for decades helps doctors use that time to best advantage.

The drug is known as metoprolol and it is an inexpensive beta-blocker, a class of drugs that lower blood pressure by suppressing the hormone epinephrine, also known as adrenaline. In 2013, a team from the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC) in Madrid conducted clinical trials with metoprolol and found that it could reduce the amount of injury sustained by the heart during an acute myocardial infarction (heart attack), a blockage in a coronary artery that cuts off the heart's blood supply.

How a 30-year-old drug helps prevent heart-attack damage

Science is going to help a lot of people once again!

Yeah....MEDICAL Science. Climate science has been responsible for more misery than good however. Thanks for playing!

Typical Luddite, thinks knowledge is the source of misery.

Ummmm, you're the one advocating that we return to a 17th century technology dude....just sayin!

 

[Vikrant]

The left ventricle is the strongest chamber in your heart. This is responsible for pumping oxygen rich blood to the rest of your body. This process causes vigorous contraction. It is this contraction which generates blood pressure in your body. Metoprolol is simply a beta-blocker which means it affects the response to nerve impulses of heart. This slows down the contraction rate therefore effectively reducing the blood pressure.

Myocardial Infarction is a result of sudden blockage of coronary artery which causes rapid choking of supply of oxygen to the heart. Without oxygen, muscles of your heart start to die. At this point, taking Metoprolol alone is not going to cut it. You will need antiplatelet agents like Clopidogrel or Prasugrel.

To make the long story short, treating a heart condition requires a strategy that is suitable for a given condition. It often involves a combination of long term and short term medicines.

 

[Hutch Starskey]

How about a better idea?

Don't live a shit lifestyle and get one in the first place.



The elites would steal your own air and brainwash you into thinking science had found a way for you to live. . . at a price.

Heart disease is hereditary. It's not preventable, only manageable.

 

[Vikrant]

How about a better idea?

Don't live a shit lifestyle and get one in the first place.



The elites would steal your own air and brainwash you into thinking science had found a way for you to live. . . at a price.

Heart disease is hereditary. It's not preventable, only manageable.

It can be hereditary or it can be due to poor lifestyle or it can be a combination of both.

For example, you could be born with arteries and veins that were too narrow. It will be an example of congenital heart disease. There are other examples of congenital heart disease. It is now well known fact that smoking causes arteries and veins to constrict leading to complicated heart conditions. This will be a good example of a heart condition developed due to a poor lifestyle choice. This problem can be further compounded by unhealthy eating and lack of exercise. Now if you happen to be a person who were born with constricted blood vessels and yet you chose to smoke on a daily basis, you can draw the rest of the picture.