Functional Category
Cardiovascular
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Compounds whose principal reported action is on the heart, the blood vessels, or the control of blood pressure: widening and narrowing of vessels, salt and fluid handling by the kidney, signalling from the vessel lining, and the hormone systems that regulate pressure. A compound is filed here on the tissue it principally acts on rather than on the effect that follows. Each compound carries exactly one category, so members with a genuine second aspect have that recorded on the compound rather than by splitting the shelf.
Why it matters here
Several compounds here are dual-natured, so the single category label understates them, and the compound's own records are where the second aspect is kept.
What it is not
Cardiometabolic resolves here but is a blended marketing word, and this site keeps the two halves apart. A compound placed under Cardiovascular was not placed here because of any effect on body weight or blood sugar.
Also called
- cardiovascular
- cardiovascular & general
- cardiovascular and general
- cardiovascular & metabolic
- cardiovascular and metabolic
- cardiovascular health
- cardiometabolic
- vascular
- heart
- natriuretic
- vasoactive
Vasoactive and natriuretic both resolve to this category. Each names a mechanism, vessel tone and salt excretion by the kidney respectively, rather than the category as a whole.
Compounds carrying this term
None on file yet. This term is in the controlled vocabulary but no compound record currently uses it — which is a statement about our coverage, not about the term.