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Evening Standard
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Daniel Keane

‘Exciting’ new drug found to reduce blood pressure in patients resistant to treatment

A doctor takes a patient’s blood pressure (Stock image)

(Picture: PA Wire)

Researchers at a London university claim to have created an “exciting” new drug that can significantly reduce high blood pressure in patients resistant to current treatments for the condition.

A trial conducted by researchers from Queen Mary University of London and US pharmaceutical firm CinCor found that the drug Baxdrostat significantly reduced blood pressure in patients for whom other treatments had failed.

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