Higher doses of spironolactone, a diuretic (water pill), can prevent the need for dialysis in selected heart failure patients, a UT Health San Antonio study found. The aggressive approach relieved fluid overload safely and ...
Aug 2, 2019
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New research from a team based at the University of Waterloo suggests that the time of day and a patient's sex may alter the effectiveness of certain blood pressure medications.
Apr 19, 2023
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Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found that patients taking prescription potassium supplements together with loop diuretics for heart failure have better survival rates than ...
Jul 16, 2014
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The diagnosis of heart failure is usually missed, denying patients treatments that could improve well-being and reduce mortality. That's the finding from a late breaking science presentation today at Heart Failure 2023, a ...
May 22, 2023
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A new computational study in a mouse model finds biological sex and time of day makes a difference in the effectiveness of diuretics—medications commonly prescribed to manage high blood pressure. The study is published ...
Mar 14, 2023
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Loop diuretics, more commonly known as water pills, are the most widely prescribed heart failure medications, but few studies had extensively compared their effectiveness until Yale School of Medicine researchers examined ...
Apr 1, 2013
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The American Heart Association estimates that the total cost of heart failure in the United States could reach $70 billion by 2030. Volume overload contributes to 90% of heart failure-related hospitalizations in the U.S. ...
Jan 30, 2020
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After hospital discharge for heart failure, people treated with either loop diuretic medication furosemide or torsemide had similar death and hospitalization rates, according to late-breaking science research presented today ...
Nov 8, 2022
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Early initiation of the sodium glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor dapagliflozin did not result in a statistically significant improvement in diuretic efficiency relative to structured usual care in hospitalized patients ...
Aug 29, 2023
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