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Table 5 The synthetic repurposing of drugs for the HT

From: Synthetic repurposing of drugs against hypertension: a datamining method based on association rules and a novel discrete algorithm

HT drug

The selected drugs by the algorithms

Trader

WCC

CUK

FOA

DSOS

Trandolapril

Cilazapril

Enalapril

Fosinopril

Fosinopril

Quinapril

Atenolol

Esmolol

Esmolol

Alprenolol

Nebivolol

Practolol

Carteolol

(Xamoterol+Nebivolol)

(Xamoterol+Nebivolol)

Penbutolol

Penbutolol

Penbutolol

Nicardipine

(Cyclandelate+Nisoldipine), (Drotaverine+Nisoldipine)

(Drotaverine+Nisoldipine)

–

–

(Drotaverine+Nisoldipine)

Felodipine

(Pinaverium+ Nisoldipine)

(Pinaverium+Nilvadipine)

(Pinaverium+Mibefradil)

(Pinaverium+Nifedipine)

(Pinaverium+Nilvadipine)

Nifedipine

(Pinaverium + Nisoldipine)

–

–

–

–

Nisoldipine

(Pinaverium+Isradipine), (Pinaverium+Drotaverine+Nilvadipine)

–

–

–

–

Doxazosin

(Nicergoline)

(Droperidol)

–

–

(Dapiprazole)

Prazosin

(Dapiprazole), (Nicergoline+Tamsulosin),

(Nicergoline+Periciazine+Dapiprazole)

(Alfuzosin+Flupentixol)

(Alfuzosin+Flupentixol)

(Alfuzosin+Phentolamine)

(Alfuzosin+Silodosin)

  1. WCC World competitive contest algorithm, CUK Cuckoo, FOA Forest optimization algorithm, DSOS Discrete symbiotic optimization search