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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 19, 1997
Hidetsugu Takagaki, Sakura, JP;
Nobuyuki Kimura, Sakura, JP;
Yasuo Aoki, Yotsukaido, JP;
Shigenori Nakanishi, Sakura, JP;
Masayoshi Abe, Chiba, JP;
Osamu Misumi, Sakura, JP;
Dainippon Ink and Chemicals, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention offers a safe and effective drug for heart diseases and a safe and effective method for treating heart diseases such as ischemic heart disease and cardiac arrhythmia. The method comprises administering a pathologically effective amount of a benzopyran derivative expressed by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is an alkyl group or an alkenyl group, R.sup.2 is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkyl group having at least one hydroxyl group, an alkenyl group, an acyl group or a glycosyl group; or physiologically acceptable salts thereof.