Right now, there are five main types of medicine that are approved to treat high blood pressure. These include ACE inhibitors ...

such as calcium carbonate. Thiazide diuretics are primarily used to treat hypertension and edema. These medications work by reducing fluid retention and lowering blood pressure. However ...

It is 10 years since the discovery of the human genome; however, the study of the influence of genetic variants on drug effect – pharmacogenomics – has so far failed to create a major impact ...

A NEW study has found that patients who develop hyponatremia after starting thiazide diuretics for hypertension have nearly twice the risk of death compared to those who maintain normal sodium levels.

In turn, patients having been successfully treated with diuretics can occasionally see BP control lapse because of the tendency for diuretics to activate the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system ...

Following reports linking thiazide diuretics with increased biliary cholesterol saturation, it has been postulated that these drugs increase the risk of gallstone development. Leitzmann and ...

Hemoconcentration induced by thiazide diuretics could also play a part in producing apparent hyperuricemia in a manner opposite to that suggested to explain the hypouricemia observed after ...

Data surrounding patient requirement for loop diuretics and thiazide diuretics for symptom and volume control after initiating an SGLT2 inhibitor was collected. Data on baseline serum creatinine at ...