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findjoshua
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Verapmil and and Heart Problems
« on: Sep 19th, 2007, 7:11am » |
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I'm *sure* this link is somewhere else, but I don't have time to look right now before I leave for work. But I just read this while researching something else.
Just FYI if you're on high doses of Verap.
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSSCH37552320070813?feedType =RSS&feedName=healthNews
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Aug 13, 2007 When high doses of the drug verapamil are used to prevent cluster headaches, a severely painful type of headache, about one in five patients will develop some form of cardiac irregularity, according to a report by UK researchers.
"The benefit of taking verapamil to alleviate the devastating pain of cluster headaches has to be balanced against the risk of causing a heart abnormality that could progress into a more serious problem," senior author Dr. Peter J. Goadsby, from the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London, said in a statement..... (continued on link above...)
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