FATAL DOSE Common anxiety drugs prescribed to 50 million ‘increase risk of death’ – are you at risk?

[Hol]

DRUGS given to thousands of Brits every year to treat anxiety and heart issues may actually increase the risk of dying, scientists warn.

Each year, there are more than 50 million prescriptions for beta blockersin the UK, according to the British Heart Foundation, mostly for heart and circulatory conditions.

They are routinely handed to heart attack survivors to ease strain on the heart and cut the risk of deadly rhythm problems.

But the results from a Spanish trial suggest the medication is ineffective and does not help reduce the risk of death or further heart attacks in women.

Women treated with the drug were nearly three times more likely to die compared to those who did not take it, researchers found.

They were also more likely to suffer another heart attack or end up back in hospital with heart failure.

Heart meds prescribed to 50 million 'increases risk of death' - are you at risk?

DRUGS given to thousands of Brits every year to treat anxiety and heart issues may actually increase the risk of dying, scientists warn. Each year, there are more than 50 million prescriptions for …

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[Margery]

They are rough on a lot of people. That has been known for decades.

But beta blockers aren't normally given for anxiety.

They are to stop arrythmias and help heart function- slowing and steadying the beat.

I had to check. Apparently they can be prescribed for short term anxiety like just before a test or giving a speech - (I looked it up because it's weird. It's not given for this in Canada that I've ever heard of) and even if it's prescribed for that type of anxiety, it's a couple of doses for a particular situation. It is NOT normally given to reduce anxiety in the long haul.

I think any dr doing that is raising a red flag about his or her ability to practice medicine safely. Beta blockers are rough- lots of side effects. Great when needed, not given unless it's needed. In the case of short term anxiety before a speech you risk the person fainting in the middle due to a drop in blood pressure on standing too long. I've never heard of them prescribed for that.

This study just goes to show that drug actions are different on men vs women. Something that the medical establishment has been slow to recognize.

Typical of the Sun paper in the UK, zero ability to research a topic before writing a click bait piece.

 

[Hol]

Thanks for all of your insights about beta blockers @Margery!

Typical of the Sun paper in the UK, zero ability to research a topic before writing a click bait piece.

I should stop using their articles.

 

[Margery]

Thanks for all of your insights about beta blockers @Margery!


I should stop using their articles.

Honestly with the amount of deception going on with formerly "good" sources, I wouldn't worry too hard. The Rebel got caught out with the Sean Feucht thing, and the Sun does have some good stuff in there sometimes, partly because they are willing to go places the mainstream doesn't.

I just had a


moment there, because this journalist that wrote the piece totally twisted the results. The headline should have been all about the Spanish study that showed diff results from men vs women when this drug is prescribed as a heart drug.

I don't know how she fastened onto the very rare (almost unknown) use of it as an anti anxiety drug (and only for a dose or two at that) when the study was focused on it's FULLTIME use as a heart drug and was comparing long term results breaking the results down between men and women.

Her editor at the Sun should haul her on the carpet and chew her out for that one. The headline she used was beyond misleading. Mind you the Sun sells papers and that headline would sell. So from a business pov I suppose it makes a certain kind of sense.

Hey Hol do you remember the first Men in Black movie when the main guy- forget his name is training his newbie partner and they stop in and pick up a copy of the Nat'l Enquirer or some such rag at the newstand operated by the pug dog?

He informs his new partner it is the BEST source of "real" news!

I loved that bit. Partly because sometimes the "news of the weird" is ready, willing and able to "go there" fearlessly where no one in their right journalistic mind would go. They break stories that other more respectable publications won't touch with a ten foot pole.

The closer we get to the Rapture the weirder it gets!!!! That's my take. I decided to use that thought in my motto under my picture back when the whole tariff thing was exploding on Canada and Trump was talking about us being the 51st. It felt like we fell into the alternate universe at some point shortly after his inauguration.

So I stuck my Rapture glasses firmly on my face, and looked squarely at the times we live in.

The weirder it gets, the closer we gets.....

 

[mattfivefour]

The fact of yet more actual and mmeasurable biological differences between women and men should be jumped on by those fighting the trans movement.

 

[Margery]

The fact of yet more actual and mmeasurable biological differences between women and men should be jumped on by those fighting the trans movement.

I know right??

But it's like ....crickets.... as the establishment doubles down on stoooopid! Men and women are not interchangeable units.