http://news.health.com/2008/09/23/leading-copd-drugs-stroke-heart-attack/ Health, medical, and wellness news from Health.com Wed, 16 May 2012 07:38:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://news.health.com/2008/09/23/leading-copd-drugs-stroke-heart-attack/#comment-9286 Sat, 03 Jul 2010 17:47:57 +0000 http://healthnewschannel.wordpress.com/?p=5579#comment-9286 If someone has a great risk of cardiovascular events, arrhythmias, hypertension, prior heart attack, prior stroke, that’s a patient where you probably say, ‘I think we’re going to try to see how well we can do without this drug,’ ” he said. “Whereas someone with a clean cardia
Inhaled anticholinergics ease breathing in patients with COPD by preventing the airways from constricting.

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