Psychiatric aspect of most common used cardiological drugs

Cholewa Krystian, Wysokińska Olga, Siwek Michał, Kozyra Magdalena, Rudziński Gracjan, Milanowska Joanna. Psychiatric aspect of most common used cardiological drugs. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2020;10(8):112-123. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/JEHS.2020.10.08.013

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Received: 20.07.2020. Revised: 25.07.2020. Accepted: 04.08.2020.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Psychiatric aspect of most common used cardiological drugs

 

Krystian Cholewa, Student Research Group of Applied Psychology, Medical University of Lublin Poland https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1310-1615

Olga Wysokińska, Student Research Group of Applied Psychology, Medical University of Lublin Poland, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9679-9958

Michał Siwek, Student Research Group of Applied Psychology, Medical University of Lublin Poland, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0930-9333 

Magdalena Kozyra, Student Research Group of Applied Psychology, Medical University of Lublin Poland https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0260-4102

Gracjan Rudziński, Student Research Group of Applied Psychology, Medical University of Lublin Poland https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8911-9144

Joanna Milanowska, Department of Applied Psychology, Medical University of Lublin Poland, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9741-1583

 

Uniwersytet Medyczny w Lublinie

Aleje Racławickie 1, 20-059 Lublin, Poland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abstract

Introduction: The count of psychiatric patients is growing. The same trend it is observed among cardiovascular diseases and metabolic like diabetes. Many people take drugs which may affect on mental state. On the one hand that drugs could have pleotropic mechanism of action which are beginning to use in treatment of psychiatry. The other hand is showed undiscovered field of impact on brain working.    

Methods and Aim: Shown the psychiatric aspect, like side effects and unusual use, of the most used cardiological drugs. To do this, research of articles was done with the help of data bases such as PubMed and Google Scholar.

Results: The most used cardiological drugs are beta blockers, calcium canal blockers, ACE inhibitors, ARBs, nitrates, cilostazol, amiodarone and clonidine In this article it was shown current known about those drugs like mechanism of action and a report of psychiatric clinical trials. Beta-blockers are the most commonly used group of cardiological drugs as the one that significantly affects mental health. Their therapeutic importance has been noted in diseases such as: PTSD or stage fright. It was also long believed that they could make depression worse, but the latest research strongly contradicts this. A positive effect in the treatment of depression can also be obtained by usage of inhibitors of the RAA. Calcium channel blockers are another group of cardiac drugs that are important in the regulation of mood in bipolar disorder. To sum up, a large proportion of cardiac drugs can influence the flow of psychiatric diseases, and the use of them may be clinically desirable in patients with both - cardiac and psychiatric problems.

 

Key words: cardiological drugs, mental disorders, side effects, mechanism of action