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How a 30-year-old drug helps prevent heart-attack damage
Michael Franco
How a 30-year-old drug helps prevent heart-attack damage
Science is going to help a lot of people once again!
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!