Gout Drug Effective for Angina

Gout Drug, Allopurinol, Effective for Angina

By Peggy Peck, Executive Editor, MedPage TodayPublished: June 07, 2010 Reviewed by Dori F. Zaleznik, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston. An old, cheap gout drug may be an effective treatment option for patients with chronic stable angina, according to results of a small placebo-controlled study. Exercise tolerance tests revealed that patients randomized to high dose allopurinol for six weeks significantly improved time to ST depression (P=0.002), total exercise time (P=0.003), and time to chest pain (P=0.001) compared with placebo, Awsan Noman, MB, of the University of Dundee in Scotland reported online in The Lancet./.../