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Losartan (Cozaar) is a drug that is commonly used to treat hypertension. However, a team of researchers also found that Losartan might be able to reduce or eliminate epileptic episodes in brain injury victims.
HCPLive.com says that while studying injured rodents that developed seizures, researchers discovered Losartan eliminated episodes in 60 percent of the rats. With the remaining rats, epileptic episodes were reduced by 25 percent.
Additionally, through the continued use of Losartan, epilepsies were prevented before becoming an issue.
In an interview with HCPLive.com, co-author of the study Daniela Kaufer, PhD, said that currently, “if someone comes to the emergency room with (a) traumatic brain injury (TBI), they have a ten to 50 percent change of developing epilepsy.”
Kaufer explained further that before the findings of this research, seizures caused by brain injuries tended to be unresponsive to drugs.
Researchers plan to spend the next couple of years confirming the findings from this study and hope to progress to human clinical trials shortly thereafter.
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