nadolol

Examples

• All

• Patients taking nadolol daily reported fewer episodes of chest pain.

• Patients on nadolol alone received a single oral 40 mg daily dose.

  Academic text (1996)

• Compliance was judged inadequate in five of the nadolol-alone patients and in four of the combined treatment patients.

  Academic text (1996)

• Patients allocated nadolol alone received the drug orally, starting with a dose of 40 mg daily as a single dose.

  Academic text (1996)

• The cumulative risk of bleeding was lowered by more than 50% in the nadolol plus isosorbide mononitrate group.

  Academic text (1996)

• 14 patients from the nadolol-only group and eight from the combined treatment group died during the study period (log-rank test p=0.09).

  Academic text (1996)

• The combination of nadolol and isosorbide mononitrate is more effective than nadolol alone in preventing variceal bleeding in relatively well patients with cirrhosis.

  Academic text (1996)

• Nadolol plus isosorbide mononitrate is significantly more effective than nadolol alone in the primary prophylaxis of variceal bleeding in relatively well patients with cirrhosis, and has few side effects.

  Academic text (1996)

• We estimated that patients with oesophageal varices that were at risk of bleeding, who were being treated with nadolol, would have a 31% chance of variceal bleeding during follow-up, and that the minimum clinically relevant effect was the decrease of this risk to 12%.

  Academic text (1996)

• We aimed to test the effectiveness of isosorbide mononitrate as an adjunct to the beta-blocker nadolol in the prophylaxis of first variceal bleeding in these patients.

  Academic text (1996)

Synonyms

C

Corgard

vsnadolol

• Specialized

8.5

A medicine that lowers high blood pressure and reduces chest pain from the heart

is the same drug but given by its generic name rather than a brand

Surface Forms

Etymology