Early Changes in Plasma and Urinary Potassium in Diuretic-Treated Patients with Systemic Hypertension

Early Changes in Plasma and Urinary Potassium in Diuretic-Treated Patients with Systemic Hypertension

Contributor(s):
The American Journal of Cardiology
Price, Michael
Johnson, Elizabeth
Papademetriou, Vasilios
Freis, Edward D.
Smith, Marlene
Publication:
Technical Publishing Company, 1 November 1984
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Hypertension
Antihypertensive Agents
Diuretics
Thiazides
Hypokalemia
Genre(s):
Archival Materials
Articles
Abstract:
In the early 1980s, many physicians began to question whether the use of certain diuretics to treat hypertension induced hypokalemia, and therefore increased the chances of cardiac arrhythmia. In this article, Freis and several of his colleagues at the Veterans Administration Hospital and Georgetown University reported that thiazide-induced hypokalemia in these patients only resulted in small and biologically unimportant losses of potassium.
Copyright:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
Extent:
5 pages
NLM Unique ID:
101584929X64 (See in Profiles in Science)
Profiles in Science ID:
XFBBFC
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584929X64
Archival Collection:
The Edward D. Freis Papers (Profiles in Science)