Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Extremely preterm infants who are treated with diuretics for respiratory conditions are more likely to require ...

A major clinical trial of blood pressure medications has concluded that an inexpensive diuretic (water pill) is more effective in treating high blood pressure and preventing cardiovascular disease ...

Diuretics constitute one of the drug classes most commonly used for the treatment of chronic heart failure (CHF). These agents rapidly relieve symptoms, and diminish pulmonary and peripheral edema, ...

Close to 6 million Americans live with heart failure, and each of their hospitalizations for the condition carries an average cost of $11,500, or $11 billion in total costs each year. Because no ...

Over time, the retention of sodium leads to crackles, peripheral edema, hepatomegaly with ascites, increased blood volume, and increased cardiac filling pressures. Although diuretics do not directly ...

CHICAGO — A nasal spray formulation of bumetanide, a diuretic drug, could help treat heart failure by preventing the resistance that can develop to oral forms of the drug, a preliminary safety and ...

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 ...

Patients taking a common diuretic to help lower blood pressure may be better off with a similarly effective but safer one, a new study suggests. Current guidelines recommend the drug chlorthalidone, ...

A large study of veterans documents a link between diuretic treatment and risk for a first fracture. Diuretic treatment may increase the risk of bone fractures, a new study finds. In a nationwide ...

A thiazide-type diuretic is the best first-choice drug for hypertensive patients according to recent research. According to the American Heart Association, about one in three U.S. adults has high ...

Maintaining a narrow focus on shortening the time from arrival at the emergency department to administration of IV diuretics may not be critical in patients with acute heart failure, a registry study ...

Adrenomedullin activity predicts which acute heart failure patients are at the greatest risk of death without diuretic treatment post-discharge, according to late breaking research presented today at ...