CVD Treatments
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- Treatment of CVD
- All of these drugs reduce blood pressure, less chance of damage to artery walls.
- Antihypertensives
- Reduce high blood pressure
- Beta-blockers (reduce strength of heartbeat)
- Vasodilators (widen blood vessels)
- Includes diuretics (reduces amount of sodium reabsorbed by the blood in kidneys)
- Results in less water being reabsorbed (due to osmosis), reduces blood volume
- Benefits
- Different types of drug, can be given in combination
- Blood pressure can be monitored at home
- Risks
- Side effects
- Palpitations
- Abnormal heart rythems
- Fainting
- Headaches
- Drowsiness
- Allergic reactions
- Depression
- Side effects
- Reduce high blood pressure
- Statins
- Reduce cholesterol in blood
- Reduces the amount of LDL (bad cholesterol) produced in liver
- A lower blood cholesterol reduces atheroma formation
- Benefits
- Reduce risk of cvd development
- Risks
- Side ffects
- Muscle/joint pain
- Digestive system problems
- Increases risk of diabetes
- Nosebleeds, headaches and nausea
- Side ffects
- Reduce cholesterol in blood
- Anticoagulants
- Reduces blood clot formations
- Blood clots are less likely form at damaged sites
- Less chance of blood vessels becoming blocked
- Benefits
- Can be used to treat patients who have blood clots already and also to prevent them from forming
- Risk
- Cannot get rid of existing blood clots
- If the person is injured, it can affect the blood clotting machanism
- Reduces blood clot formations
- Platelet Inhibitory
- Reduce formation of blood clots
- Type of an anticoagulant that prevents clumping platelets that form blood clots
- Benefits
- Can be used to treat people who have blood clots already/ CVD
- Risks
- Side effects:
- Diarrhoea
- Nausea
- Liver function problems
- excessive bleeding
- Side effects:
- Reduce formation of blood clots
- Antihypertensives
- All of these drugs reduce blood pressure, less chance of damage to artery walls.
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