The commonly use drug which is used to treat gout can also ease angina pain is found through new research. Allopurinol is a cheap medicine compared to other angina drugs and seems to work by reducing the need of energy by heart said the Lancet report.
Angina is feeling of pain or discomfort in region of chest. Chest pain occurs when your heart muscles don not get required amount of oxygenated blood. It is described as feeling of pressure, burning, tightness and squeezing in chest.A drug commonly used to treat gout can also relieve angina, researchers say.
In study by The Dundee University involved sixty-five angina sufferers and found those used allopurinol could exercise for loner times without getting chest pain. Angina pain affects millions of people ever year worldwide. It significantly reduces the quality of life of angina sufferer. There are various treatments available but some do not work and some are very expensive.
Allopurinol could fill this gap and on the basis of their results, allopurinol was a useful anti-ischemic treatment option for patients with angina that had the advantage of being inexpensive, well tolerated and safe in long term. Allopurinol blocks an enzyme called xanthine oxidase, which in turn reduces the energy used by the heart in each, beat explained Professor Allan Struthers and his team.
In small trail researchers found that those who received allopurinol treatment against placebo were able to walk twenty-five percent longer before they whined of chest pain. Their electrical recordings of the heart showed that allopurinol facilitated the heart to work for longer before showing signs of oxygen starvation.
Allopurinol has been used to treat gout for decades and is safe and relatively cheap. There are several effective medicines out there for controlling angina but it is helpful for doctors to have another option to turn to patients who do not respond to existing drugs, said Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation.
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