Title:

Effect of Diuretic Therapy on Ventricular Arrhythmias in Hypertensive Patients with or without Left Ventricular Hypertrophy

Creator:

Price, Michael
Notargiacomo, Aldo V.
Fletcher, Ross
Papademetriou, Vasilios
Freis, Edward D.
Gottdiener, John

Date:

September 1985

Description:

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, some researchers began to question the use of certain diuretics as antihypertensive agents, reasoning that they could cause hypokalemia and therefore increasing the likelihood of cardiac arrhythmias. For this study, Freis's team focused on hypertensive patients with evidence of left ventricular hypertrophy to determine if they had an increased risk of sudden death when treated with diuretics. They found that therapy with the thiazide diuretic did not increase the ventricular arrhythmias in these patients.

Periodical:

The American Heart Journal

Publisher:

C.V. Mosby Company

Location:

Box: 7. Folder: 15

Rights:

Public Domain

Genre:

Articles

Subject:

Hypertension, Antihypertensive Agents, Diuretics, Thiazides, and Arrhythmias, Cardiac

Format:

Text

Extent:

5 pages

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Periodical. Papademetriou, Vasilios, Michael Price, Aldo V. Notargiacomo, John Gottdiener, Ross Fletcher, and Edward D. Freis. "Effect of Diuretic Therapy on Ventricular Arrhythmias in Hypertensive Patients with or without Left Ventricular Hypertrophy." The American Heart Journal 110, 3 (September 1985): 595-599. Article. 5 Images.. The American Heart Journal

Legacy ID:

XFBBFF

NLM ID:

101584929X66

Profiles Collection:

The Edward D. Freis Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584929X66

Story Section:

After 1980: Changing Trends in Hypertension Therapy