Ramipril

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What is Ramipril? (Tritace, Triapin, Altace)

  • Ramipril is used to treat high blood pressure or heart failure, or to protect your heart from further damage after a heart attack.
  • It widens your blood vessels and makes your kidneys push less water back into your blood. These actions help to decrease blood pressure
  • Ramipril is one of a family of medicines called Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitors (ACE Inhibitors). They are called this because they achieve their effect on your blood vessels by blocking the action of a chemical called Angiotensin Converting Enzyme.

 

Find out more at: 

https://patient.info/medicine/ramipril-an-ace-inhibitor-tritace-triapin-altace 

https://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/search?q=Ramipril

How likely is Ramipril to help me?

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  • This grey face represents the number of people in the survey group.
  • This green face represents the one person in the survey group that the medicine has helped.

Research suggests:

In a group of 270 patients at high risk of heart disease, Ramipril will prevent one person  from this group (on average) from dying over a period of one year.  In this study, Ramipril also reduced the risk of heart attack, stroke, coronary revascularisation and heart failure.

This picture illustrates how likely it is that a person taking Ramipril will  get this benefit.

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It is not possible to tell what will happen to you as an individual.

 

Find out more about this research at: 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10639539

(Tooltip - Mean age of patients in this study was 66 years. More than half of patients in this study had had a heart attack. Ramipril dose was 10 mg/day)

What are the possible risks of taking Ramipril?

You can discuss with your health professional  the possible side effects and other risks Ramipril might have.

Side-effects are unwanted affects that can happen to your body when taking a medicine. 

Not everyone will get side-effects. These usually improve as your body adjusts to the new medicine, but speak with your doctor or pharmacist if any of the following side-effects persist or worry you.

Here are some of the common side-effects of Ramipril - which affect less than 1 in 10 people:

  • Dry cough
  • Feeling dizzy or tired
  • Headache, aches and pains, cold and flu-like symptoms
  • Feeling or being sick, indigestion, diarrhoea, tummy pain.
  • Feeling short of breath, rash, chest pain

There are other side-effects that are less common or rare. 

Find out more at https://patient.info/medicine/ramipril-an-ace-inhibitor-tritace-triapin-altace#nav-4