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Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Certain Antihypertensive Medications May Increase Risk Of Lip Cancer.

Forbes Share to FacebookShare to Twitter (8/7, Husten) reports that certain "antihypertensive drugs...have been linked to a significantly increased risk for lip cancer in a new study Share to FacebookShare to Twitter published in the Archives of Internal Medicine."
        HealthDay Share to FacebookShare to Twitter (8/7, Dotinga) reports that investigators "used data on Kaiser Permanente health plan patients and compared more than 700 patients in northern California with lip cancer to nearly 23,000 people in a control group."
        MedPage Today Share to FacebookShare to Twitter (8/7, Bankhead) reports, "Led by hydrochlorothiazide diuretics, five antihypertensives with photosensitizing properties were associated with a 42% to 322% greater risk of lip cancer compared with a matched control group with no history of lip cancer." The investigators reported that "the five drugs that had significant associations with lip cancer include some of the most commonly used hypertensives throughout the world: lisinopril, nifedipine, and atenolol, as well as hydrochlorothiazide alone or in combination with triamterene. When the other agents were excluded, atenolol use by itself did not increase the risk of lip cancer."

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