Ramipril 2.5mg Capsules

Ramipril 2.5 mg Capsules

Ramipril Capsules contains a medicine called ramipril. This belongs to a group of medicines called angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors.

Ramipril Capsules work by:

  • Decreasing your body’s production of substances that could raise your blood pressure
  • Making your blood vessels relax and widen
  • Making it easier for your heart to pump blood around your body.

Ramipril capsules can be used:

  • To treat high blood pressure (hypertension)
  • To reduce the risk of you having a heart attack or stroke
  • To reduce the risk or delay the worsening of kidney problems (whether or not you have diabetes)
  • To treat your heart when it cannot pump enough blood to the rest of your body (heart failure)
  • As treatment following heart attach (myocardial infraction) complicated with heart failure.

Please contact Crescent Pharma should you require any more information.

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Therapeutic indications for Ramipril 2.5 mg Capsules

– Treatment of hypertension.

– Cardiovascular prevention: reduction of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in patients with:

  • manifest atherothrombotic cardiovascular disease (history of coronary heart disease or stroke, or peripheral vascular disease)

or

  • diabetes with at least one cardiovascular risk factor (see section 5.1).

– Treatment of renal disease:

  • Incipient glomerular diabetic nephropathy as defined by the presence of microalbuminuria,
  • Manifest glomerular diabetic nephropathy as defined by macroproteinuria in patients with at least one cardiovascular risk factor (see section 5.1),
  • Manifest glomerular non diabetic nephropathy as defined by macroproteinuria ≥ 3 g/day (see section 5.1).

– Treatment of symptomatic heart failure.

– Secondary prevention after acute myocardial infarction: reduction of mortality from the acute phase of myocardial infarction in patients with clinical signs of heart failure when started > 48 hours following acute myocardial infarction.

Please contact Crescent Pharma should you require any more information.

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