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#321 Hypertension FAQ: Common Outpatient Cases with Dr. Jordy Cohen

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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Is the Combination Calcium Channel Blocker and ARB Affordable?

A lot of the times I'll see folks reach for an ACE or an ARB right just because they're easy to dose and we're familiar with them but for patients who may become pregnant like is that a consideration you have that conversation ahead of time sort of what does that discussion look like? Yeah, we didn't mention whether Tom is M to F and whether Tom might potentially have a possibility of becoming pregnant, for example. So it is something that if it's a feasibility in my patient, I would definitely mention to them that this medication is stratogenic and we need to take that into account If you are not on birth control or if there's possibility you might stop your birth control that

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