Popular COPD treatment increases risk for cardiac events, cardiac death
Sunday, October 5, 2008 - 23:35
in Health & Medicine
New research out of Wake Forest University School of Medicine shows that use of the most commonly prescribed once-a-day treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) for longer than one month increases the risk of cardiovascular death, heart attack or stroke by more than 50 percent...
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