Common COPD medications linked with increased risk of CV death, heart attack

Sunday, October 5, 2008 - 23:35 in Health & Medicine

The use of inhaled anticholinergic agents (medications that help reduce bronchospasm) by patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is associated with a significantly increased risk of heart attack, stroke of cardiovascular death, according to a meta-analysis of randomised trials published in the 24 September issue of JAMA...

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