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Health officials in Britain advise doctors to avoid prescribing "beta-blockers" as routine treatment for high blood pressure. While the drugs work, other medications now exist that work better with fewer side effects. 
 
Beta blockers carry an increased risk of type II diabetes, and symptoms such as lethargy. 
 
Recommendations are calcium channel blockers or thiazide diuretics for those over age 55 and of African or Caribbean descent; younger patients should have an ACE inhibitor or angiotensin receptor blocker. 
 
Patients should consult their doctors before stopping any medication.

Doctors advised to curb beta-blockers

Telegraph.co.uk - 6/27/2006 8:49 PM

Drugs currently taken by 1.6 million people to combat the dangers associated with high blood pressure should be replaced with newer, more effective medications, the government's medicines watchdog will announce today.
 
Recent research has shown that while beta-blockers do help many people control blood pressure and cut associated risks of strokes, heart attacks and death, other treatments work better and have less serious side effects
 
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