More than 12 million bottles of blood pressure-lowering drugs such as valsartan and losartan have been removed from the market since 2018 because they contained nitrosamines.

Health care providers need to be cognizant of the potential for interactions when an HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor, losartan, valsartan, digoxin, oxycodone, quinine, sertraline, acyclovir ...

Overall, valsartan was the most frequently prescribed ARB, with 10,975 total prescriptions, followed by losartan, for which there were 9224 claims. ARBs were more likely to be prescribed alone ...