Talk:Atenolol

Diagnosis question
my question is my friend has been on these med's listed below clonidine 1.5 mg minoxidil 2.5 mg atenolol 50 mg lisinopril 40 mg furosemide 40 mg can you tell me what the doctor could be treating this person for with thaking these meds.. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.141.252.94 (talk • contribs). 03:27, 22 July 2006

Heart problems —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.168.241.143 (talk) 13:20, 7 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia is not the place to ask or receive personal advice. Best option would be to ask your friend directly - it would likely show your support to them, allow them to open up and talk about themselves indirectly: are the medicines for hypertension or heart problems - talking about the medicines is less awkward than asking directly about their health and any concerns or fears they might have. David Ruben Talk 02:52, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

This seems like a nicely written article, but a few citations would make it better. I am looking at standardizing the format of pharmaceutical compounds with a good lead paragraph and then details on the drug's profile following the FDA's product insert.--Chrispounds 11:51, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Millions of trade names!
I was going to add Noten to the list of trade names of atenolol, but then I realised this drug has a bajillion of them, so I decided against it. (As it's only called noten in several backwater countries...) Still, would it be a good idea to put a list of commercial trade names on this drug's page? Here is but a short list: "Alinor; Altol; Anselol; Antipressan; Apo-Atenolol; Atcardil; Atecard; AteHexal; Atelol; Atenblock; Atendol; Atenet; Ateni; Atenil; Atenol; Atereal; Aterol; Atolmin; Betablok; Betacard; Blokium; B-Vasc; Catenol; Coratol; Corotenol; Evitocor; Farnormin; Felo-Bits; Hypoten; Hipres; Internolol; Lo-ten; Loten; Lotenal; Myocord; Normalol; Normiten; Noten; Oraday; Premorine; Prenolol; Seles; Serten; Stermin; Tenidon; Tenoblock; Tenolin; Tenolol; Tenoprin; Tenormin; Tenormine; Tensig; Tensimin; Tredol; Urosin; Vascoten; Vericordin; Wesipin; Xaten" Any suggestions as to what to do? Anybody on one of these trade names and not knowledgable enough to search for atenolol won't find this page. Serrin 01:00, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

I've not posted on Wiki before, but couldn't searches for these trade names and also for alternative spellings such as antenalol simply feed into the page as I have seen some other searches do? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.217.6.8 (talk) 00:55, 3 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Tenormin is the branded trade name in US, UK,jordan, and Australia for the innovator company AstraZeneca. I would list only that name. --Chrispounds 01:17, 25 November 2006 (UTC)


 * The drug has been out of patent for a long time now. Some countries don't have a tradition of generic prescribing, and it's quite normal for different makers to dream up their own proprietary names for what is basically a generic drug in these markets. I don't think it makes sense to list all possible obscure proprietary names in the article on the offchance that somebody will be too clueless to search on the generic name. The generic name should always be listed on the packaging anyway. --80.176.142.11 (talk) 13:09, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

The link for reference 1 appears to be dead. The nearest equivalent I can find is http://www.nice.org.uk/niceMedia/pdf/2006-028-Launch-of%20updated-HT-guideline.pdf What do others think? GusTheTheatreCat (talk) 03:47, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

atenolol danger
I added an outside link to a Medscape article which discusses a recent review showing that atenolol increases CV events. The proposed mechanism is that slowing the heart rate by non-vasodilating beta blockade increases central pressure... or it could be some effect peculiar to atenolol. I'd think that this info should be promoted some day by someone :) to a section in the body of the article. Kenmcl2 (talk) 01:45, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Street use of Atenolol
What is the street use of Atenolol? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.106.72.209 (talk) 16:27, 10 March 2009 (UTC) there is no street use for this drug in the united kingdom but if there was it would be used like valium to make you feel drozy and sleepy basically what drug addicts use. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.144.170.223 (talk) 02:26, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

WRONG —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.189.200.2 (talk) 01:20, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

vivid dreams
can u pls tel me why is atenolol associated with vivid dreams —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.182.1.130 (talk) 19:10, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

beta blocker or β-blocker
Should the greek letter be used for the name of the class of drugs? It could easily be confused with roman B or even the german by non-english speakers.67.79.10.114 (talk) 18:36, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Atenolol and Type 2 Diabetes
The article claims atenolol can exacerbate type 2 diabetes, but the link it provides is dead and I cannot find any literature that supports this claim. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.162.182.28 (talk) 22:46, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Betalol?
I came here because the previous beta blocker my GP here in Thailand had given me was called Prenolol, which is Atenolol. As far as I knew the only difference with Betalol, which I'm now taking, was that it was half-dosage. I googled it, as it's not a redirect in Wikipedia, and see only forums discussing it between patients and doctors. Is it atenolol also?

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