DALLAS, Aug. 17 – Iron supplements may be a simple remedy for the “common cough” associated with a widely used cardiovascular drug, according to a study in this month’s Hypertension: Journal of the ...

Q: My husband has been taking lisinopril for years now to control hypertension. We never associated his persistent nonstop coughing with this drug until today. He passed out a number of times today ...

Q: I have had the cough from hell, with retching and even vomiting, for six months now. The first doctor suggested I have a "post-viral hyperreactive cough." The second recommended drugs for acid ...

The objective of this study was to compare the quality of life and incidence of dry cough with the angiotensin II antagonist eprosartan, the ACE-inhibitor enalapril, and placebo, in hypertensive ...

Is that lingering cough simply annoying or the sign of something much worse? Here's how to tell if it's time to call the doctor. The post When to Worry About a Cough That Won’t Go Away appeared first ...

Dear Dr. Gott: I am an older woman in comparatively good health. I take blood-pressure medicine, Lipitor, Fosamax, glucosamine/chondroitin and, on occasion, Zyrtec ...

A study of the Austrian general population found that most chronic cough cases could be assigned a phenotype through a simple survey-based assessment that could help target treatment to individual ...

Although cough is a defence mechanism to clear the airways, if it becomes excessive or persistent it may cause hyperventilation which, in combination with reflex cardiovascular changes, can exacerbate ...

There is "little, if any, clinical reason" to use angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors for the treatment of hypertension or other cardiovascular indications because angiotensin receptor ...

In more than 3 million people worldwide treated for hypertension, ARBs were not only just as effective as ACE inhibitors at reducing the risk of major cardiovascular events, but also associated with a ...