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The study found that the inhibitor prevented the heart from changing shape in patients suffering from left ventricular hypertrophy, a condition that causes thickening and enlargement of the heart muscle. The drug also improved functioning of the heart in patients with a variety of cardiac conditions, with no effect on blood pressure.

In fact, researchers found that the drug improved efficiency when the heart pumped blood into vessels, along with relaxation between beats. “Very few drugs used in cardiology can actually affect these parameters.

For this reason their implications in the treatment and prevention of heart failure are huge.” However, Isidori notes that because these studies were conducted exclusively on men, the next step should be a larger trial on women. This site is protected by recaptcha Privacy Policy | Terms of Service.

"A significant number of subjects suffering from erectile dysfunction are much happier to take pills for heart failure or high blood pressure than to improve their erections." “I am not surprised and it’s good news,” said Dr.

Kloner, professor of medicine in the cardiovascular division at the Keck School of Medicine at USC in California.

“We can always use a new drug for heart failure." Kloner co-authored the book, “Viagra: How the Miracle Drug Happened & What It Can Do for You.” He said this is not the first time, scientists have looked to

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In 1989, British scientists tested sildenafil citrate as a medication to treat high blood pressure and angina. By the 1990s in early trials of the drug, researchers noticed an interesting side effect — an increase in erections. In 1996, the pharmaceutical company Pfizer patented it as Viagra, and in just two years, doctors had ordered more than 40,000 prescriptions of the new wonder drug.

“When the drug first came out there was a big scare — is this going to kill people?” said Dr.

Kociol, director of the heart failure program at the CardioVascular Institute at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

“But in all studies, to the best of my knowledge, it’s not shown any increase in cardiac events in patients who take these drugs,” he said.

Past studies have suggested Viagra and other PDE5 inhibitors may have benefits for heart failure by decreasing pulmonary artery resistance and providing cardio-protective effects in settings with low blood flow, according to Kociol. “They also improve exercise tolerance in patients with heart failure,” he said.

The drug may even reduce the size of a heart attack.

But Kociol said scientists have to “temper” their enthusiasm as more studies are necessary. “As interesting as this paper is, there have been conflicting results,” sildenafil tablet price he said. “If there is a silver bullet, it remains to be seen.” Kociol added that researchers also need to “pay more attention” differences between men and women and between racial groups. Some earlier research suggests that drugs like Viagra might interact differently with estrogen, which is known to have naturally protective properties

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VIAGRA BLUNTS EFFECTS OF STRESS ON THE HUMAN HEART. Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Corporate Communications Media contact: David March 410-955-1534; dmarch1@jhmi.edu October 24, 2005.

VIAGRA BLUNTS EFFECTS OF STRESS ON THE HUMAN HEART.

Sildenafil citrate (Viagra), a drug used to treat erectile dysfunction (ED) in sildenafil tablet price millions of men, reduces the stimulatory effects of hormonal stress on the heart by half, according to results of a new study by researchers at Johns Hopkins.

While sildenafil is more widely known for helping genital blood vessels expand to maintain an erection and, more recently, as a treatment for pulmonary hypertension, it has been thought to have

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“Sildenafil effectively puts a ‘brake’ on chemical stimulation of the heart,” says Kass.

The researchers’ findings, which appear in the journal Circulation online Oct. 24, are believed to be the first confirmation in humans that sildenafil has a direct effect on the heart. Previous research by Kass and his team showed that sildenafil had such effects in mice, blocking the short-term effects of hormonal stress in the heart.

Related studies by the group also showed that sildenafil prevents and reverses the long-term effects sildenafil teva 100mg price in the heart from chronic high blood pressure.

Moreover, Kass adds, the latest Hopkins results confirm that sildenafil helps control heart function only when the heart is under duress, but has little impact under normal conditions. Separate research from Kass and his team published earlier this year in the journal Nature Medicine showed that, in mice, sildenafil could reverse the negative effects on heart muscle weakened by heart failure and enlargement, a condition called hypertrophy. “But we had no firm evidence as to whether or how this therapy might work in the human heart. Our latest research provides firm evidence this drug does indeed have an important impact on the heart.” Thirty-five healthy men and women, with an average age of 30 and no previous signs of coronary artery disease, participated in the six-month study. Within a three-hour timeframe, each participant received two separate injections of dobutamine (5 micrograms per kilogram for five minutes), a synthetic, adrenaline-like chemical that increases heart rate and pumping strength. Between injections, study participants were randomly assigned to a group that was treated with sildenafil (100 milligrams taken orally) or to a group given a sugar pill placebo. All participants were then given the second dobutamine injection to see what effects sildenafil or placebo had on the heart.

Measurements of heart function were made before and after each injection. This included blood pressure readings, electrocardiograms and echocardiograms, as well as blood samples to confirm relatively equal levels of sildenafil and other enzymes.

Results showed that each dobutamine injection stimulated heart function, increasing heart rate and the force of each heartbeat used to pump blood throughout the body. “This stimulation is similar to the way the nervous system normally increases heart function when triggered by emotional or exercise stress, or in diseases such as heart failure,” adds Kass. After the first injection of dobutamine, the force of heart contraction increased by 150 percent in both groups. And in the placebo group, this increase repeated itself after the second injection. However, in the group treated with sildenafil, the increased heartbeat was slowed by 50 percent, resulting in a smaller increase in blood flow and blood pressure generated by the heart in response to chemical stimulation.