Side Effects of NSAID Painkillers
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, also know as NSAID are the main medications prescribed to treat Arthritis joint pain. Yet, Harvard Medical School published that NSAID painkillers could increase the risk of heart attack.
Many people are aware of this because of the publicity that came in 2004 when Vioxx was taken off the market. However some people didn’t realized that not only prescription NSAIDs could lead to cardiovascular complications.
Over-the-counter NSAIDs like Ibuprofen and Aspirin “boost blood pressure and can counteract the effect of some blood-pressure drugs.” According to Harvard Health Publications.
Read more here from the Harvard Health Publication.
[...] However, many NSAID’s have long term negative side effects such as increased risk of heart attack or Dementia. Corticosteroids are strong anti-inflammatory hormones. The most commonly prescribed [...]