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Withdrawal of long term diuretic medication in elderly patients
— a double blind randomised trial | | Author(s) | Edmond P Walma, Arno W Hoes, Colette van Dooren |
| Journal title | British Medical Journal, vol 315, no 7106, 23 August 1997 |
| Pages | pp 462-468 |
| Keywords | Drugs ; Long term ; Blood pressure ; Heart disease ; Clinical surveys. |
| Annotation | About 20% of older people use long term diuretic medication, but there is doubt whether this is necessary on such a large scale. In this study, the authors assessed what proportion may successfully withdrawn from diuretic therapy. It was found that withdrawal of long term diuretic treatment in older patients leads to symptoms of heart failure or increase in blood pressure to hypertensive values in most cases. Any attempt to withdraw diuretic therapy requires careful monitoring conditions, notably during the four initial weeks. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970909006 A |
| Classmark | LLD: 4Q: BKL: CQH: 3G * |
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