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Panic attacks with HT drugs. (Mental Health).
Patients with multiple episodes of intolerance to antihypertensive medications had a high incidence of panic attacks and symptoms of anxiety and depression, compared with matched patients who tolerated the drugs, Dr. Simon J. Davies reported.
These patients typically receive a wide variety of treatments for their hypertension, all of which are poorly tolerated, while their psychiatric symptoms have not been recognized and addressed, he said in a poster presentation at the annual meeting of the American Society of Hypertension.
"If we offered them a prescription appropriate to their psychiatric diagnosis then they may well get better. The merry-go-round of being prescribed and rejecting so many different drugs might stop," said Dr. Davies of Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, England.
The researchers analyzed medical records for 233 hypertensive patients, half of whom had experienced more than one episode of intolerance to antihypertensive drugs; the others had no record of drug intolerance. The patients completed mailed ...
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