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Treatment With Angiotensin Receptor Blockers for High Blood Pressure Does Not Increase Risk of Cancer

Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2011.  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced that a group of medications used to control high blood pressure, called angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs), do not increase the risk of developing cancer in patients using the medications.

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In July 2010, the FDA reported that a safety review of ARBswould be performed after a published study found a small increased risk of cancer in patients taking an ARB compared to…

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