Sentences with phrase «arrhythmia after taking these drugs»

«Women have a higher incremental risk of suffering an arrhythmia after taking these drugs than do men probably because (1) the interval between heart muscle contractions is naturally longer for women than for men and (2) male sex hormones moderate the heart muscle's sensitivity to these drugs,» the U.S. General Accounting Office (now the Government Accountability Office) concluded in 2001.