Worldwide sales of speak pills against high blood pressure. They found a substance used in rocket fuel, but now found that it does not cause cancer.
Tablets from high blood pressure, which are recalled from sale in different countries due to fears that they can cause cancerin the short term the risk of this disease do not increase. We are talking about a drug valsartan, the opinion which the sale is conducted in 22 countries since July of this year. Due to changes in the production of drugs in China in the drug ingredient called N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA), which is used in rocket fuel. Then there was speculation about the fact that after penetration into the human body NDMA can cause cancer.
However, Danish scientists conducted a study which showed that between exposure to NDMA due to receive valsartan and the risk of developing cancer in the next four years there was no connection. These are the results of analysis of 5 150 people older than 40 years who had not previously had cancer, which was conducted by researchers from the University of southern Denmark. All these people took valsartan at some period of his life from 2012 to 2017.
The manufacturer of a medicine by the Chinese company Zhejiang Huahai Pharmaceuticals has changed the recipe of its production back in 2012, which led to contamination of NDMA. This is one of the most dangerous from the point of view of cancer risk substances, as shown by studies involving animals. Against such people there is no certainty, but scientists call NDMA possible carcinogen. Note that the study by Danish researchers applied only to short-term cancer risk, and the probability of tumor development in the long term due to exposure to NDMA have not been assessed. (READ MORE)