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Can Losartan decrease high hematocrit caused by testosterone replacement?
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<blockquote data-quote="Marco N Cognito" data-source="post: 30908" data-attributes="member: 13"><p>Since I recalled you are or were taking telmisartan, I just came across this from some research and thought I should bring to your attention in case you already didn't see this conflicting data regarding ARBs (i.e. telmisartan, losartan, etc.) and cancer :</p><p><a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324682204578515172395384146" target="_blank">Dispute Flares Inside FDA Over Safety of Popular Blood-Pressure Drugs</a></p><p><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-bloodpressure-drugs-cancer-idUSTRE65C2C120100613" target="_blank">Common blood pressure drugs may raise cancer risk</a></p><p><a href="http://www.peoplespharmacy.com/2013/05/31/popular-blood-pressure-pills-under-cancer-cloud/" target="_blank">Popular Blood Pressure Pills Under Cancer Cloud</a></p><p><em>"Barely three weeks later (June 20, 2011), however, a study from Taiwan published in the <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Chang+ARBs+cancer" target="_blank">Journal of Clinical Oncology</a> revealed that patients with diabetes taking ARBs such as candesartan (Atacand) and telmisartan (Micardis) experienced an increased risk of cancer."</em></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://jco.ascopubs.org/content/29/22/3001.full" target="_blank">Angiotensin Receptor Blockade and Risk of Cancer in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Nationwide Case-Control Study | Journal of Clinical Oncology</a></p><p></p><p><em>"Among the individual ARBs, losartan decreased the risk (OR, 0.78; 95% CI, 0.63 to 0.97) and candesartan (OR, 1.79; 95% CI, 1.05 to 3.06) and telmisartan (OR, 1.54; 95% CI, 0.97 to 2.43) possibly increased the risk of occurrence of malignancy." </em></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21358417" target="_blank">Effects of telmisartan, irbesartan, valsartan, candesartan, and losartan on cancers in 15 trials enrolling 138,769 individuals - PubMed</a></p><p><a href="http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/ucm257516.htm" target="_blank">Angiotensin Receptor Blockers (ARBs)</a></p><p><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131001115646.htm" target="_blank">Blood-pressure drug may help improve cancer treatment</a></p><p><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26550179" target="_blank">Angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) reduce the risk of lung cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis - PubMed</a></p><p></p><p>And so, as is the case with many meds, we have a lot of opposing data & controversy. I am on Losartan, so am concerned as well.</p><p></p><p>Thoughts??</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marco N Cognito, post: 30908, member: 13"] Since I recalled you are or were taking telmisartan, I just came across this from some research and thought I should bring to your attention in case you already didn't see this conflicting data regarding ARBs (i.e. telmisartan, losartan, etc.) and cancer : [URL="http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324682204578515172395384146"]Dispute Flares Inside FDA Over Safety of Popular Blood-Pressure Drugs[/URL] [URL="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-bloodpressure-drugs-cancer-idUSTRE65C2C120100613"]Common blood pressure drugs may raise cancer risk[/URL] [URL="http://www.peoplespharmacy.com/2013/05/31/popular-blood-pressure-pills-under-cancer-cloud/"]Popular Blood Pressure Pills Under Cancer Cloud[/URL] [I]"Barely three weeks later (June 20, 2011), however, a study from Taiwan published in the [URL='http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Chang+ARBs+cancer']Journal of Clinical Oncology[/URL] revealed that patients with diabetes taking ARBs such as candesartan (Atacand) and telmisartan (Micardis) experienced an increased risk of cancer."[/I] [URL="http://jco.ascopubs.org/content/29/22/3001.full"]Angiotensin Receptor Blockade and Risk of Cancer in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Nationwide Case-Control Study | Journal of Clinical Oncology[/URL] [I]"Among the individual ARBs, losartan decreased the risk (OR, 0.78; 95% CI, 0.63 to 0.97) and candesartan (OR, 1.79; 95% CI, 1.05 to 3.06) and telmisartan (OR, 1.54; 95% CI, 0.97 to 2.43) possibly increased the risk of occurrence of malignancy." [/I] [URL="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21358417"]Effects of telmisartan, irbesartan, valsartan, candesartan, and losartan on cancers in 15 trials enrolling 138,769 individuals - PubMed[/URL] [URL="http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/ucm257516.htm"]Angiotensin Receptor Blockers (ARBs)[/URL] [URL="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131001115646.htm"]Blood-pressure drug may help improve cancer treatment[/URL] [URL="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26550179"]Angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) reduce the risk of lung cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis - PubMed[/URL] And so, as is the case with many meds, we have a lot of opposing data & controversy. I am on Losartan, so am concerned as well. Thoughts?? [/QUOTE]
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