Maintaining or achieving blood pressure control in patients with arthritis and concomitant hypertension (treated or untreated) could avoid more than 70,000 deaths from stroke and 60,000 deaths from coronary heart disease each year. Therefore, it is important to investigate the effects of NSAIDs on blood pressure. The current article is a health alert describing a study which states that ibuprofen increases blood pressure in arthritis patients.
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), both selective and non-selective cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitors, are among the most widely prescribed drugs worldwide, but they are associated with increased blood pressure and adverse cardiovascular events. According to the results from PRECISION-ABPM study, Ibuprofen is associated with increased blood pressure and hypertension compared to celecoxib in patients with osteoarthritis or rheumatoid…
