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What is Nifedipine?

Nifedipine is a calcium channel blocker used to treat high blood pressure or coronary heart disease. Read more...Click to read more below

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
Elevated blood pressure 39 11 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate Efficacy_cant_tell
Other 9 2 Efficacy_major
Raynaud's Disease 8 1 Efficacy_major
Hypertension 4 0
Raynaud's phenomenon 4 1 Efficacy_major
Pulmonary Hypertension 3 0

See all 74 patients currently taking Nifedipine

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 1
Moderate
 4
Mild
 1
None
 14

Commonly reported side effects, conditions, and hospitalizations associated with Nifedipine

Headaches 2
Dizziness 1
Decreased appetite 1
Fatigue 1
Heart palpitations 1
Pitting edema 1
See all 7 reported side effects ▼ See top 6 reported side effects ▲

Reported Dosages

Frequently reported dosages based on patients currently taking Nifedipine. See all 13 dosages ►

  10 mg daily 15 mg daily 20 mg daily 30 mg daily 50 mg daily 60 mg daily 90 mg daily 120 mg daily 180 mg daily 240 mg daily
  4 Number of Patients: 4 1 Number of Patients: 1 5 Number of Patients: 5 26 Number of Patients: 26 1 Number of Patients: 1 20 Number of Patients: 20 10 Number of Patients: 10 4 Number of Patients: 4 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1  

Reported Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Taking Nifedipine (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Doctor's advice 8   Doctor's advice: 42%
Side effects too severe 6   Side effects too severe: 32%
Course of treatment ended 4   Course of treatment ended: 21%
Other 3   Other: 16%
Did not seem to work 1   Did not seem to work: 5%
Not indicated 1   Not indicated: 5%

See all 19 patients who’ve stopped taking Nifedipine

Reported Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Currently Taking Nifedipine

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0

Stopped Taking Nifedipine

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Nifedipine

Always
 18 90%
Usually
 2 10%
Sometimes
 0 0%
Never
 0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Nifedipine

Very
 1 5%
Somewhat
 0 0%
A little
 1 5%
Not at all
 18 90%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Nifedipine

$200+
 0 0%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 0 0%
$25-49
 0 0%
< $25
 12 100%

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Report created on February 12, 2012.