Death risk doubled for patients experiencing early hyponatremia after starting a thiazide diuretic. Patients who experience hyponatremia soon after starting thiazide diuretics have an increased risk ...

Higher thiazide doses are associated with greater reductions in urine calcium, which in turn correlate with fewer symptomatic kidney stone events, according to a new study. Higher thiazide doses are ...

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 colleagues ...

High blood pressure and weakened bones are two big health issues for seniors. Now, new data suggests that one class of drugs might help protect against both. The study of thousands of Veterans Affairs ...

A common diuretic wasn't much help for staving off recurrent kidney stones, the NOSTONE trial showed. Over a median follow-up of 2.9 years, symptomatic or radiologic recurrence of kidney stones ...

Kidney stones affect nearly 10% of the global population. For more than three decades, thiazide diuretics, a common medication used for high blood pressure, have been the standard of care for kidney ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Mortality risk nearly doubled for patients who developed hyponatremia soon after initiating a thiazide vs.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The cumulative incidence of hyponatremia was about 1.4 percentage points higher for thiazide diuretics than ...

In the chronic response phase of therapy the vasodepressor influence of a diuretic emerges as a process driven by a reduction in total peripheral resistance (TPR), which is inadequately explained ...