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  • noun medicine A nonselective beta blocker

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  • noun beta blocker that can reduce the progression of heart failure in individuals whose disease is not advanced

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Examples

  • Additionally, it should be noted that the FDA has in the past approved drugs that have failed in the primary goal of their designed studies but retrospectively demonstrated improved survival (e.g. carvedilol for heart failure).

    Tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth: What really happened with Provenge?? 2008

  • Research has shown that beta blockers like carvedilol, bisoprolol and sustained-release metoprolol lower mortality by 30 percent or more.

    BEST TREATMENTS: MANAGING HEART FAILURE 2007

  • In pooled data analyses, beta-blockers reduced death by 21 percent and heart attack by 24 percent in people who already had heart disease.39 Examples of beta-blockers include propranolol (Inderal), atenolol, metoprolol (Lopressor, Toprol), and carvedilol (Coreg).

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause M.D. Vivian Pinn 2006

  • In pooled data analyses, beta-blockers reduced death by 21 percent and heart attack by 24 percent in people who already had heart disease.39 Examples of beta-blockers include propranolol (Inderal), atenolol, metoprolol (Lopressor, Toprol), and carvedilol (Coreg).

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause M.D. Vivian Pinn 2006

  • In pooled data analyses, beta-blockers reduced death by 21 percent and heart attack by 24 percent in people who already had heart disease.39 Examples of beta-blockers include propranolol (Inderal), atenolol, metoprolol (Lopressor, Toprol), and carvedilol (Coreg).

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause M.D. Vivian Pinn 2006

  • In pooled data analyses, beta-blockers reduced death by 21 percent and heart attack by 24 percent in people who already had heart disease.39 Examples of beta-blockers include propranolol (Inderal), atenolol, metoprolol (Lopressor, Toprol), and carvedilol (Coreg).

    Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause M.D. Vivian Pinn 2006

  • White blood cells with receptors for both virus and nerve proteins may assault nerves after fighting an infection A virus infection can incite the body to attack its own nerve tissue by activating unusual, disease-fighting cells drug carvedilol, currently prescribed for the treatment of hypertension, may lessen the degenerative impact of Alzheimer's disease and promote healthy memory ...

    WN.com - Articles related to Healthy Diet Could Slow Or Reverse Early Effects Of Alzheimer's Disease 2010

  • Franco FG, Roveda F, de Matos LN, Braga AM, et al. (2007) Exercise training reduces sympathetic nerve activity in heart failure patients treated with carvedilol.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Yrsa Bergmann Sverrisdóttir et al. 2010

  • The scientists conducted behavioral and learning tests with each group of mice, and determined that it took the mice in the carvedilol significantly less time to remember tasks than the other group.

    R&D Mag - News 2010

  • Medicine have found that the drug carvedilol, currently prescribed for the treatment of

    WN.com - Articles related to Healthy Diet Could Slow Or Reverse Early Effects Of Alzheimer's Disease 2010

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