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Which type of nitrate is used for acute conditions?
Which type of nitrate is used for acute conditions?
- Long-acting
- Short-acting (correct)
- Both short-acting and long-acting
- Neither short-acting nor long-acting
What is nitrate tolerance?
What is nitrate tolerance?
- An emotional-motivational withdrawal symptom upon cessation of drug use
- A toxic compound that nitrates can interfere with
- A condition caused by the chronic use of a tolerance-forming drug
- A marked attenuation in the magnitude of most of the pharmacological effects of nitrovasodilators (correct)
What is the recommended way to reduce nitrate tolerance in a patient?
What is the recommended way to reduce nitrate tolerance in a patient?
- Use long-acting nitrates instead of short-acting ones
- Stop gradually and then start treatment again when symptoms re-occur (correct)
- Increase the dose of the nitrate
- Abruptly stop treatment and then start again when symptoms re-occur
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