Sentences with phrase «known as a vasodilator»

Nitric oxide is known as a vasodilator, and serves to widen blood vessels and improve delivery of blood and nutrients to muscles and organs that need it.

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Our studies have shown that patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH, previously known as primary pulmonary hypertension or PPH) have low levels of NO in their exhaled breath that increase after initiation of vasodilator therapy.
The heart drugs known as direct vasodilators can also cause it.
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