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Angina Pill Could Save 10,000 Heart Patients a Year

by VR Sreeraman on August 31, 2010 at 12:09 PM Drug News

A pill for chest pains costing Ł10 a week could save the lives of thousands of heart failure patients and dramatically reduce hospital admissions, trial results published Monday suggest.

Angina Pill Could Save 10,000 Heart Patients a Year

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Professor Martin Cowie, who led the UK-based part of the study, said the drug could prevent up to 10,000 deaths a year in the UK and described it as "a significant breakthrough".

The pill, ivabradine -- also known under the brand name Procoralan -- is already available in the UK for angina.

The trial involved more than 6,500 patients in 37 countries, all with chronic heart failure and a high heart rate of at least 70 beats per minute, already on treatments such as beta-blockers.

The results, presented Monday at the European Society of Cardiology annual meeting in Stockholm and published in the Lancet medical journal, suggest that ivabradine could be used to treat thousands of patients with moderate to severe heart failure.

Over two years, the drug cut trial patients' risk of death from heart failure by 26 percent and had a similar impact on the likelihood of being admitted to hospital because of worsening symptoms.

Prof Cowie, who is a consultant cardiologist at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London, said: "We now know that more lives can be saved and improved simply by adding ivabradine to their current treatment in order to take some of the strain off the heart.

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