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“to know that you have other agents there as well. Thiazide diuretics and calcium channel blockers are also highly efficacious. Those are easily in the 15 millimeter of mercury and 9 to 10 millimeter of mercury impact on blood pressure, but they do tend to come with more side effects.”
“to work with them on which one to take? I think there are definitely some rules of thumb on this. So, somebody who's got heart failure or reduced ejection fraction, you would want to avoid a calcium channel blocker because obviously calcium channels play an important role in contractility of the heart.”
“And race might also play a role here. It would appear that in African-Americans, thiazide diuretics or calcium channel blockers might actually be more effective than ACE inhibitors or ARBs or even beta blockers when it comes to reducing cardiovascular events.”
“I mean, it's just short-sighted, I think. Rounding out this list, calcium channel blockers and Botox, correct? Yeah. Yeah, let's talk a little bit about those two. So calcium channel blockers doesn't have as much data for prevention of migraine.”
“More classically, it's used for prevention of a headache like cluster headache. But still, people may end up using calcium channel blockers, which is a blood pressure medication for prevention of migraine. And they're doing this at a lower dose, I'm assuming, as well? A lower dose, but sometimes the doses are increased, particularly in patients with cluster headache.”
“So he had a brittle he was a brittle hypertensive. He was on a beta blocker, what's called a calcium channel blocker and something called an ACE inhibitor. And they could not get his blood pressure down. It was life threateningly high. And this had gone on for years.”