Both diuretics and calcium antagonists are effective and superior to β blockers in treating black hypertensive patients.

It also has direct spasmolytic effects on bladder smooth muscle as a calcium antagonist and local anesthetic, but at concentrations far above those used clinically.

Felodipine is a calcium channel blocker (calcium antagonist), a drug used to control hypertension (high blood pressure).

Magnesium is a natural calcium antagonist and both human and animal studies have shown that low circulating magnesium levels are associated with vascular calcification.

Influence of calcium antagonists on thrombin-induced calcium mobilization and platelet-vessel wall interactions.

Magnesium may mediate the favorable impact of whole grains on insulin sensitivity by acting as a mild calcium antagonist.

They include drugs belonging to the following classes: ACE inhibitors, calcium antagonists, and alpha 1-receptor blockers.

Marked symptomatic orthostatic hypotension has been reported when calcium antagonists and organic nitrates were used in combination.

Nor, they said, did the study provide enough evidence to recommend that people should stop using calcium channel blockers, or calcium antagonists as they are also known.

Studies comparing calcium antagonists with angiotensin I converting enzyme inhibitors are controversial.