Title:

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

Creator:

Price, Michael
Johnson, Elizabeth
Papademetriou, Vasilios
Freis, Edward D.
Smith, Marlene

Date:

1 November 1984

Description:

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.

Periodical:

The American Journal of Cardiology

Publisher:

Technical Publishing Company

Location:

Box: 7. Folder: 15

Rights:

Public Domain

Genre:

Articles

Subject:

Hypertension, Antihypertensive Agents, Diuretics, Thiazides, and Hypokalemia

Format:

Text

Extent:

5 pages

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Periodical. Papademetriou, Vasilios, Michael Price, Elizabeth Johnson, Marlene Smith, and Edward D. Freis. "Early Changes in Plasma and Urinary Potassium in Diuretic-Treated Patients with Systemic Hypertension." The American Journal of Cardiology 54, (1 November 1984): 1015-1019. Article. 5 Images.. The American Journal of Cardiology

Legacy ID:

XFBBFC

NLM ID:

101584929X64

Profiles Collection:

The Edward D. Freis Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584929X64

Story Section:

After 1980: Changing Trends in Hypertension Therapy