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Ramipril is a medicine widely used to treat high blood pressure and heart failure. It's also prescribed after a heart attack.
Ramipril helps prevent future strokes, heart attacks and kidney problems.
It works by widening your blood vessels and making it easier for your heart to pump blood around your body.
This medicine is available on prescription. It comes as tablets, capsules and as a liquid that you swallow for people who find it difficult to swallow tablets.
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