For example, calcium-channel blockers like nifedipine may lose their effectiveness over time.

Calcium-channel blockers and an oxytocin antagonist can delay delivery by 2-7 days.

Calcium-channel blockers (like diltiazem or verapamil) are also effective in slowing the heart rate.

Some heart medications such as beta-blockers or calcium-channel blockers can slow your heart rate.

Examples include aspirin, other painkillers, and calcium-channel blockers.

A few of these treatments include basic therapy, calcium-channel blockers, and prostacyclin therapy.

By relaxing the tone of this smooth muscle, calcium-channel blockers dilate the blood vessels.

They include digoxin, beta-blockers, and calcium-channel blockers.

The usual treatment involves the same drugs used to counter the symptoms of angina: nitroglycerin, beta-blockers and calcium-channel blockers.

Moreover, high-dose calcium-channel blockers among patients who have a response to this treatment can prolong survival and improve pulmonary haemodynamics.

Due to its N-type calcium-channel blocking properties, it has more advantages compared to conventional calcium-channel blockers.

Dr. Thier cited two classes of drugs, beta blockers and calcium-channel blockers, that are used to treat heart disease and other disorders.

One study, published in 1998, examined dozens of articles about calcium-channel blockers, a controversial family of blood pressure medications that some doctors feel are dangerous for certain patients.

Medical therapy for nutcracker esophagus includes the use of calcium-channel blockers, which relax the LES and palliate the dysphagia symptoms.

Other medications that may cause or exacerbate the problem are those with anticholinergic adverse effects (eg, tricyclic antidepressants) and calcium-channel blockers (eg verapamil).

Meta-analyses indicate that calcium-channel blockers and an oxytocin antagonist can delay delivery by 2-7 days, and β2-agonist drugs delay by 48 hours but carry more side effects.

Drugs that may include depression as a side effect include heart medications like beta-blockers and calcium-channel blockers, hormones like corticosteroids, antibiotics and medications used to treat gastro-intestinal disorders, she said.

Beta and calcium-channel blockers and antidepressants will usually prevent migraines in those with frequent attacks - but these preventive medications must be taken daily, under physicians' supervision, because they can have adverse side effects.

These drugs include ergotamine, methysergide (a preventive marketed by Sandoz Pharmaceuticals as Sansert), calcium-channel blockers like verapamil, beta-blockers such as propranolol, the analgesic naproxen, and antidepressants like amitriptyline.

In 1999, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital reported that calcium-channel blockers were the most heavily advertised drug in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1996, while there were no ads for diuretics.

In the revised UK guidelines, calcium-channel blockers are the preferred treatment with target clinic readings of less than 150/90 mmHg, or less than 145/85 mmHg on ambulatory or home blood pressure monitoring.

The researchers also suggested that doctors enroll sickle-cell patients in trials involving drugs that can increase nitric oxide, like oral arginine, and drugs approved to treat primary pulmonary hypertension, like prostacyclins and calcium-channel blockers.

Researchers have known since 1989 that when some of the common blood-pressure pills called calcium-channel blockers were washed down with grapefruit juice, far more of the drugs reached the blood than when they were taken with a swallow of water instead.

They said debates about the treatment of coronary-artery disease should focus on more current data that reflects advances in surgical, anesthetic and nursing techniques, as well as the wide use of newer drugs, such as beta blockers and calcium-channel blockers.

Calcium channel blockers are used to lower high blood pressure.

Calcium channel blockers are used but only work in a few cases.

For some patients, calcium channel blockers may be the only effective drug.

Calcium channel blockers, which are used to control high blood pressure or for people with certain heart problems.

They found that the heart attack patients were more likely to be taking calcium channel blockers.

Thus, there was a 60 percent increased risk from using calcium channel blockers.

Calcium channel blockers to increase blood flow to the heart.

Calcium channel blockers should be taken with food or milk.

Some calcium channel blockers can sometimes make heart failure worse.

It belongs to a group known as calcium channel blockers.

The third case involved calcium channel blockers, a class of drugs whose purpose is to lower blood pressure.

Older adults have more side effects from calcium channel blockers than younger people.

You may need a group of medicines called calcium channel blockers long-term.

The researchers said they did not know whether their findings would apply to other calcium channel blockers.

Usually, calcium channel blockers cause very few side effects.

Consult with your doctor before taking calcium channel blockers during pregnancy.

The controversy over the safety of calcium channel blockers that led to yesterday's meeting began nearly a year ago.

One action of calcium channel blockers is to widen blood vessels.

It was the second time in the last year that the safety of drugs called calcium channel blockers have been under scrutiny.

Calcium channel blockers are the most widely prescribed class of drugs for high blood pressure.

Verapamil is in a group of drugs called calcium channel blockers.

Calcium channel blockers slow your heart rate and lower your blood pressure.

The next class of antihypertensives to be discovered were calcium channel blockers.

Drugs called calcium channel blockers were recently shown to reduce the chances that this will happen.

Beta-blockers or calcium channel blockers work better to control heart rate during exercise.