Some regular medicines - include ACE inhibitors taken for blood pressure, such as ramipril, diuretics like furosemide, and ...

Blood pressure medications are commonly prescribed and are usually well-tolerated, but there are some serious side effects you should know about.

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Panelists discuss how diuretics serve as necessary “bailout therapy” for volume management in heart failure but should not substitute for guideline-directed medical therapy, with emerging evidence ...

Bananas are not the best source of potassium. Kidney beans, dried apricots, and orange juice all have higher concentrations of potassium than bananas.

As I was reviewing postoperative instructions with my patient after her extraction, she casually mentioned that she'd been taking "water pills" along with her blood pressure medication. My pen stopped ...

Q. My mother was prescribed HCTZ for high blood pressure. Her potassium and sodium levels had not been tested in three years, although she saw her doctor for yearly checkups. She ended up in the ...

The need to intensify oral diuretic therapy in patients who have heart failure with mildly reduced or preserved ejection fraction (HFmrEF/HFpEF) is significantly decreased with finerenone (Kerendia; ...