Blood pressure medicine recalls: Should you really stop taking them?
Blood pressure medicine recalls: Should you really stop taking them?
Several blood pressure medications have been recalled over concerns that an impurity in them can cause cancer. But doctors tell us the theoretical risk does not outweigh the harm that could be caused if someone stops taking their medications.
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0.14 -> the headlines are hard to ignore several
3.12 -> different kinds of blood pressure
4.2 -> medication shanks from your pharmacist
6.359 -> shows all of them the result of an
8.28 -> avalanche of FDA recalls so should you
11.28 -> stop taking your medicine Dana Smith
13.5 -> took that question straight to the
15.269 -> experts
17.66 -> Chesapeake resident Johnny Lundy started
20.67 -> taking a new blood pressure medication
22.59 -> five months ago
23.67 -> this is worse Arden and I think I was
25.92 -> thinking one to one pill per day or two
28.41 -> pills per day he had a stroke in January
30.99 -> I remember going in that door in the
33.27 -> hospital and then I don't remember what
35.61 -> happened after that
36.51 -> he's been recovering ever since taking a
39.059 -> combination of prescriptions I'm taking
42.05 -> seven medicine in the morning and seven
46.44 -> medicines at night his medication was
48.809 -> certain however is one of several other
51 -> blood pressure drugs that have been
52.949 -> voluntarily recalled by pharmaceutical
55.41 -> companies over concerns an impurity in
58.44 -> it can cause cancer medications
61.17 -> valsartan and or were certain are also
63.27 -> on the list what's the real risk so if
65.97 -> you have law starts at home
67.26 -> and the question is are you really going
69.78 -> to develop cancer that's the question on
71.85 -> many people's minds I would say that in
74.34 -> some ways it's a lot of hullabaloo but
76.979 -> nobody's actually died or gotten cancer
79.29 -> it's a theoretical risk
81.24 -> Sentara dr. David Baron says not taking
84.479 -> your recalled blood pressure medication
86.58 -> could cause more immediate harm than
89.28 -> just stayin on it don't just stop your
91.65 -> medications for the one-in-a-million
93.54 -> chance that maybe after 20 years there
96.119 -> might be a risk of cancer whereas today
98.49 -> tomorrow this week you might have a
100.229 -> stroke if you have high blood pressure
101.52 -> out of control if you took a maximum
103.799 -> dose over a period of your lifetime only
105.96 -> 1 in 8,000 people would even have an
107.49 -> issue so that's reassuring Chesapeake
110.82 -> Regional Medical Center pharmacist
112.47 -> Debbie bill quoted a statistic from the
114.78 -> FDA which tested the theoretical risk of
118.14 -> patients developing cancer if they took
120.479 -> the highest dose of bell Sartain the FDA
122.969 -> said quote most patients who were
125.34 -> exposed to the impurity received less
127.89 -> exposure than this
129.63 -> worst-case scenario don't stop your
131.94 -> meditation because your that could be
133.71 -> more detrimental than continuing on with
137.1 -> with the product the recall is only
139.5 -> affecting generic brands of the drugs
141.39 -> which were manufactured overseas in
143.58 -> China dr. Baron explained most generic
146.76 -> manufacturers share chemicals which is
149.19 -> why the recall is so widespread but the
151.71 -> reality is most patients can't afford
153.99 -> brand name medications can't just tell
156.63 -> the patient who's on a generic drug well
158.55 -> just go to the brand name if they could
160.41 -> they would have already probably been on
162.18 -> that branded drug does it seem that when
164.34 -> there's always an issue behind the this
168.03 -> type of this lower-cost medication and I
171.57 -> don't think that it's as Americans I
173.67 -> don't feel that it's the right thing to
175.56 -> do but it's what we have so we like they
179.67 -> say we've got to keep taking it the FDA
181.56 -> recommends patients continue taking
183.66 -> their medication until their pharmacists
185.94 -> or doctors provide an alternative even
188.46 -> if that medication has been recalled
190.56 -> Dana Smith 13 News now
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