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Viagra may reduce chances of heart failure
March 16, 2006
According to some researchers, the impotence drug
Viagra may also help
prevent the abnormal growth of the heart seen in some types of heart
disease. Viagra, the famous erectile
dysfunction drug, originally tested but rejected as a heart
drug, stopped the overgrowth of hearts in mice that were implanted
with heart failure in the study.
"A larger-than-normal heart is a serious medical condition, known
as hypertrophy and is a common feature of heart failure that can
be fatal" said cardiologist Dr. David Kass of The Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine, who led the study.
Viagra, known generically as sildenfil and made by Pfizer, was the
first of the new impotence drugs, It works by affecting a molecule
called nitric oxide, which expands blood vessels.
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