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What Food Gives You Hypertension?
A new study had found that a single dose of sildenafil, an ingredient in the erectile-dysfunction drug Viagra, may prevent rebound pulmonary hypertension in some infants in intensive care units (ICU). Fifteen infants who were being weaned from inhaled nitric-oxide therapy in the ICU were given a dose of the blood-vessel widening drug while 14 infants were given a placebo. None of the infants given sildenafil experienced rebound pulmonary hypertension, a common complication of nitric-oxide...
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Letairis approved to treat dangerous type of hypertension
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FDA approves Tekturna for hypertension
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Bystolic approved for hypertension
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