CVD TREATME

ANTIHYPERTENSIVES

Drug Action Side Effect

increases volume of urine produced which

decreases the volume of blood as it eliminates
Diuretics
excess fluids and salts so it decreases blood
pressure

beta blockers make the heart rate slower and the

contractions lesss tronger so the the blood pressure
Beta Blockers if not monitored carefully,
is lower by blocking the heart to respond to
hormones such as adrenalin blood pressure might become
too low.the second major risk
is the sideaffets that may
result from the way your
they affect the sympathetic nerves. The inhibitors body reacts to the drugs
Sympathetic Nerve prevent these nerves signalling to the arteries,
Inhibitors which helps to keep the arteries dilated and your
blood pressure lower

they block the production of antiotensin, which

ACE Inhibitors reduces the constriction of blood vessels and so
keeps your blood pressure low.
VD TREATMENTS, SIDE EFFECTS AND RISKS

STATINS

Drug Action Side Effect

they block the enzyme in the liver muscle and joint aches
that is responsible to make and nauasea, constipation
cholesterol and aslo blovk the and diarrhoea. Fatal
Statins production of LDLs.they also muscle inflammation.
reduce inflammation in the lining of Cuse liver problems, like
the arteries which reduces the the liver failure and other ill
development of atherosclerosis effects of a bad diet.

they reduce the amount of

cholesterol absorbed from your gut
Plant stanols and into your blood, whichcn make it memroy loss and muscle
sterols easier for your body to metabolise damage
cholesterol and reduce the levels
the level of LDLs in the blood
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INHIBITORY DRUGS

Drug Action Side Effect

it interferes with the

manuacture of
if given in high does, the
prothrombin in the
blood will not clot at qall and
Anticoagulant - Warfarin body. Low
cause bleeding until death
prothrombin levels
atfer the slightest injury
make the blood clot
less easily.

make the platelets

Platelet Inhibitory Drugs
less sticky and irritates stomack lining and
- Aspirin and
reduce the clotting causes bleeding in stomach
Clopidogrel
ability of the blood