Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, used to treat hypertension.
ACE inhibitors work by helping to stop the body from reacting to certain hormones that cause negative effects on the heart and blood flow. ACE inhibitors are considered "vasodilators," because they dilate, or widen, blood vessels.
ACE inhibitors are commonly used to lower blood pressure. They do this by blocking the action of an enzyme (ACE) that converts the inactive hormone angiotensin I to the active hormone angiotensin II and is also responsible for the degradation of bradykinin. The absence of angiotensin II and increased levels of bradykinin results in a widening of the arteries, thereby causing a fall in blood pressure.
blood pressure-lowering agents that also have a protective effect on the kidney and have been shown to be preferred agents to control blood pressure and progression of kidney damage in diabetes.
Medications that act as a vasodilator by stopping the body from making angiotensin, a substance in the blood that makes vessels tighten and raises blood pressure.
A type of blood pressure medicine which utilizes the renin-angiotensin blood pressure regulating system of the body. People with Polycystic Kidney Disease PKD have an alteration of this mechanism with an overproduction of renin which causes blood pressure to rise. In some individuals ACE inhibitors may cause a cough to develop.
most heart failure patients are on angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors. They can help control symptoms and may slow the advance of the disease. ACE inhibitors reduce the heartâ€(tm)s workload by making the blood vessels expand, which lowers blood pressure. They also reduce the tendency to retain salt and fluid.
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Drugs that block the formation of a natural body chemical and dilate small arteries to reduce blood pressure.
A type of heart failure medication that works by preventing the body from creating angiotensin, a substance in the blood that causes vessels to tighten and raises blood pressure. In large-scale studies, ACE inhibitors have been proven to slow the progression of heart failure.
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Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors used for lowering blood pressure. Categorized among antihypertensives.
A drug that inhibits ACE (angiotensin converting enzyme) which is important to the formation of angiotensin II. Angiotensin II causes arteries in the body to constrict and thereby raises the blood pressure. ACE inhibitors lower the blood pressure by inhibiting the formation of angiotensin II. This relaxes the arteries. Relaxing the arteries not only lowers blood pressure, but also improves the pumping efficiency of a failing heart and improves cardiac output in patients with heart failure. ACE inhibitors are therefore used for blood pressure control and congestive heart failure . See the entire definition of ACE inhibitors
are drugs that inhibit ACE (angiotensin converting enzyme). An enzyme needed for the production of the peptide angiotensin II, which causes arteries to constrict and therefore raises the blood pressure. ACE inhibitors lower the blood pressure by inhibiting the formation of angiotensin II. This relaxes the arteries and thus lowers blood pressure. Relaxing the arteries also helps to improve the pumping efficiency of a failing heart and therefore increase cardiac output in patients with heart failure. ACE inhibitors are used in the treatment of hypertension (high blood pressure) and congestive heart failure. ACE inhibitors currently in use include: benazepril, captopril, lisinopril, quinapril, and ramipril.
medications that relax the arteries
Drugs that block the hormone angiotensin from narrowing the blood vessels; used to treat hypertension and congestive heart failure.
ACE (angiotensin- [ANGIOTEN-sin] converting enzyme) inhibitors help stop the body from forming certain hormones that cause blood vessels to narrow. ACE inhibitors are called "vasodilators," because they dilate, or widen, blood vessels.
Heart failure medications that expand the body's blood vessels. They work by stopping the body from making angiotensin, a substance in the blood that makes vessels tighten and raises blood pressure.
ACE inhibitors are a class of vasodilators, drugs that open ("dilate") the arteries, lowering blood pressure and therefore helping prevent stroke .