Post-text assignments:
Exercise 7. Answer the following questions:
What medications are used as a means to control or to prevent certain forms of heart disease?
In what cases may any drug treatment be changed?
What groups may all types of cardiovascular drugs be divided into?
Depending upon what are all types of cardiovascular drugs broken into groups?
What drugs are better known to people as cholesterol-lowering drugs?
What pharmaceutical drugs are primarily used for the treatment of hypertension (high blood pressure) and congestive heart failure?
What cardiovascular drugs may doctors prescribe when people are unable to control cholesterol levels through diet and exercise?
What helps to prevent formation of blood clots that might cause stroke?
In what case does a doctor switch to other types of medication?
What is always important to know for those taking cardiovascular meds?
Exercise 8. Choose one or more words from list B to modify the verbs from list A so as to make sense. Translate the word combinations into Ukrainian.
List A: significant; cardiovascular; side; ventricular; systemic; pharmaceutical; blood; cholesterol; blood; heart; fluid.
List B: pressure; interactions; drug; levels; retention; clots; meds; failure; effects; hypertrophy; sclerosis.
Exercise 9. Find the appropriate sentence endings:
Diuretics….
Beta Blockers…
Calcium Channel Blockers…
Cardiovascular medications…
An ACE inhibitor…
Digitalis…
Aspirin…
Statins…
...are used as a means to control or to prevent certain forms of heart disease.
…may be better known to people as cholesterol-lowering drugs.
…may help control blood pressure, slow fast arrhythmias, and reduce chest pain associated with angina.
… is a chemical that disrupts the movement of calcium (Ca2+) through calcium channels. However, the most widespread clinical usage of them is to decrease blood pressure in patients with hypertension as well as to alter heart rate, to prevent cerebral vasospasm, and to reduce chest pain caused by angina pectoris.
…is a pharmaceutical drug used primarily for the treatment of hypertension (high blood pressure) and congestive heart failure.
…are cardiovascular drugs or agents that help to increase the flow of urine.
...a white crystalline compound widely used in the form of tablets to relieve pain and fever, to reduce inflammation, and to prevent strokes. Formula: CH3COOC6H4COOH Chemical name: acetylsalicylic acid.
…a drug prepared from the dried leaves or seeds of the foxglove.
Exercise 9. Complete the following sentences with the suitable words from the box:
Cardiovascular drugs may ... three groups: drugs that affect the heart; drugs that affect blood pressure; and drugs that prevent blood clotting.
Digitalis glycosides are used to treat patients with…. .
Quinidine is a primary drug used to treat... .
.... are drugs which constrict muscle fibers around blood vessel opening.
Nitrites ... all smooth muscles in the body.
A third type of drugs used to lower blood pressure is called a diuretic, an agent which promotes ... of fluid.
The important effect of digitalis glycosides are the strengthening of the...
Vasodilators are drugs which ... the muscles of vessel walls.
Nitroglycerin dilates all smooth muscles in the body including the muscles of the ... blood vessels.
The pain (angina pectoris) caused by a lack of adequate blood flow to the heart is relieved by placing under the tongue.
Vasoconstrictors are needed to raise blood pressure, increase the force of heart action and stop local... .
When given intravenously, heparin prevents the formation of .... within vessels.
(Vasoconstrictors; clots; nitroglycerin; bleeding; be divided into; heart failure; relax; myocardium; excretion; dilate; arrhythmias; coronary)
Exercise 10. Put questions to the underlined words.