Antihypertensive therapy seeks to prevent the complications of high blood pressure, such as stroke and myocardial infarction. Antihypertensives are a class of drugs that are used in medicine and pharmacology to treat hypertension (high blood pressure). There are many classes … Read More
An anticholinergic agent is a member of a class of pharmaceutical compounds which serve to reduce the effects mediated by acetylcholine in the central nervous system and peripheral nervous system. Anticholinergics are typically reversible competitive inhibitors of one of the … Read More
An analgesic (colloquially known as a painkiller) is any member of the diverse group of drugs used to relieve pain (achieve analgesia). This derives from Greek an-, “without”, and -algia, “pain”. Analgesic drugs act in various ways on the peripheral … Read More
