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Common blood pressure drugs may raise cancer risk By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO | Sun Jun 13, 2010 2:09pm EDT CHICAGO (Reuters) – A widely used class of blood pressure drugs may slightly increase the risk of cancer, U.S. researchers said on Sunday, and they are calling on U.S. regulators to take a closer look. They [...]

Drugs for blood pressure are widely prescribed and considered to be safe—life-saving even, in many cases. So it’s unnerving to learn that these same drugs could increase the risk of getting cancer. A new study meta-analyzed nine published studies of blood pressure drugs known as angiotesin-receptor blockers and found they were linked to a “modest [...]