There are numerous safe and natural alternatives to these dangerous pain killers. High blood pressure is just one of the potentially deadly side effects of these drugs. Common painkillers raise heart risk: "Popular painkillers such as aspirin, ibuprofen and acetaminophen can raise blood pressure and thus the risk of heart disease among men, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
Men who took such drugs for most days in a week were about one-third more likely to be diagnosed with high blood pressure than men not taking them, the researchers found.
Their findings, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, reinforce a study published in 2002 that these commonly used drugs raise blood pressure in women.
'This is a potentially preventable cause of high blood pressure,' Dr. John Forman of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, who led the study, said in a statement."
