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How Dangerous Are Diuretics?

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Identifier: 101584929X111
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Dates

  • Publication: 1985

Extent

6 pages

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Description

Throughout the 1980s, Freis felt compelled to defend the use of diuretics for use as an antihypertensive agent. Some researchers believed that diuretic-induced hypokalemia might bring about fatal arrhythmias, others felt that long-term use encouraged high cholesterol, and thus posed a risk of coronary artery disease. In this article, Freis and Papademetriou concluded that the accumulated evidence does not support the conclusion that thiazide diuretics... increased cardiovascular risk.

NOTE: Some of the text is slightly skewed in the scanned copy.

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English

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