Diuretics are in the forefront of the antihypertensive armamentarium and constitute the reference antihypertensive drugs. This is so because monopharmacotherapy with these substances lowers high blood ...

The effects of aging on the cardiovascular system induce an increase in arterial stiffness leading to an elevated SBP. Several studies have demonstrated the benefits of SBP lowering in elderly ...

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In the recent ALLHAT double-blind randomized trial, U.S. researchers found that a thiazide diuretic (chlorthalidone) was the most effective of several first-line therapies for hypertension, including ...

In patients with hypertension who are overweight or moderately obese, diuretics were shown to potentially reduce the severity of obstructive sleep apnea, according to study findings. In patients with ...

Diuretics were associated with reduced heart disease in a drug comparison trial involving 23,077 people with both high blood pressure and the metabolic syndrome, a cluster of risk factors for heart ...

A long-awaited study designed to help American doctors decide how to treat high blood pressure has found that the cheapest category of drug -- diuretics -- works the best and should be the first ...

A research study of more than 600 black patients with uncontrolled hypertension found that less than half were prescribed a diuretic drug with proven benefit that costs just pennies a day, report ...

Background: Thiazide diuretics are cost-effective for the treatment of mild to moderate hypertension, but physicians often opt for more expensive treatment options such as angiotensin II receptor ...

DALLAS -- Torsemide (Demadex) treatment did not reduce the frequency of post-partum hypertension among women who had preeclampsia during pregnancy, researchers said here. While the rate of persistent ...

Little evidence has been available to support the use of thiazide diuretics to treat hypertension in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease. We randomly assigned patients with stage 4 chronic ...