Title:

How Dangerous Are Diuretics?

Creator:

Freis, Edward D.
Papademetriou, Vasilios

Date:

1985

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.

Periodical:

Drugs

Publisher:

Adis International Limited

Location:

Box: 7. Folder: 23

Rights:

Public Domain

Genre:

Articles

Subject:

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

Format:

Text

Extent:

6 pages

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Periodical. Freis, Edward D., and Vasilios Papademetriou. "How Dangerous Are Diuretics?" Drugs 30, 6 (1985): 469-474. Article. 6 Images.. Drugs

Legacy ID:

XFBBHK

NLM ID:

101584929X111

Profiles Collection:

The Edward D. Freis Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584929X111

Story Section:

After 1980: Changing Trends in Hypertension Therapy