There was a need for a new treatment for the patients of hypertension for some times. Health agencies are now looking to swap beta-blockers by a new kind of drug. However, the beta-blockers will be continued to use in the case of angina and heart failure.
Britain’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is in process of assessing the number of people using beta-blockers for high blood pressure. It blocks some receptors in the heart.
The new drugs such as ACE inhibitors, calcium channels and diuretics are being used for high blood pressure.
The new study confirmed that beta-blockers decrease the risk of stroke complication by about twenty percent; however, the new drugs reduce the risk of those complications by forty per cent.
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