What Are Calcium Channel Blockers? Calcium makes your heart and blood vessels work harder to pump. Calcium channel blockers work by slowing the movement of calcium into the cells of the heart and ...

Calcium channel blockers are one type. They treat AFib by slowing your heart rate and relaxing the heart muscle so it doesn't have to work as hard. These medications won't stop AFib from getting ...

Beta-blockers more effectively reduce risk for death or hospitalization in people with HFpEF compared with calcium channel blockers. Calcium channel blockers also reduce the risk for adverse ...

Calcium channel blockers to the rescue Lueck and his colleagues were particularly interested in understanding this cycle as it held the potential to explain the muscular dysfunction in DM1.

Patients on calcium channel blockers (CCBs) had a higher likelihood of glaucoma than their counterparts, according to a population-based, cross-sectional study. Examining data on more than 400,000 ...

The AHA says the heat and dehydration put significant stress on the heart. Certain heart medications can also heighten the ...

NEW YORK, July 31 (Praxis Press) Cardiovascular outcomes have not been compared in hypertensive patients treated with calcium channel blockers and in patients treated with older drugs. Hansson and ...

Amlodipine is a commonly prescribed calcium channel blocker medication used to treat high blood pressure as well as certain types of angina (chest pain) and coronary artery disease. It is ...

Our laboratory has sought to examine the effects of sodium channel blockade and calcium channel blockade on the electrophysiologic effects of ibutilide in isolated tissue preparations. A slow ...