a study of over 2,500 patients who had experienced sudden cardiac arrest in Amsterdam, the team found a notable pattern. Those taking high doses of nifedipine—specifically 60 milligrams a day—were significantly more likely to have suffered a cardiac arrest compared to those not on the drug. To confirm this wasn’t a fluke, they replicated the study using a massive dataset from Denmark with over 8,000 patients, and the results were the same. The risk did not appear with amlodipine, suggesting the effect is specific to nifedipine.
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