Medication

The generic name for a family of prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs.

Any medicine that dilates (widens) the arteries.

Vasopressors are a class of medication that constrict blood vessels and raise blood pressure, used to treat critically low blood pressure (hypotension) that cannot be corrected by fluid replacement alone. They work by stimulating receptors in blood vessel walls, causing them to narrow (vasoconstriction) and thereby increasing the resistance against which the heart pumps, which … Read more