Angiotensin Receptor Blockers Are Not Just for Hypertension Anymore

Beyond blood pressure control, angiotensin receptor blockers reduce common injury mechanisms, decreasing excessive inflammation and protecting endothelial and mitochondrial function, insulin sensitivity, the coagulation cascade, immune responses, cerebrovascular flow, and cognition, properties useful to treat inflammatory, age-related, neurodegenerative, and metabolic disorders of many organs including brain and lung.

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In addition to controlling blood pressure, angiotensin receptor blockers also reduce inflammation and protect various organ functions, making them useful in treating inflammatory, age-related, neurodegenerative, and metabolic disorders.