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View Post: Chlorthalidone & Its Side Effects
31 Oct 2009 by Onlinewriter  
Read about the side effects of chlorthalidone, a diuretic that is administered to patients who have kidney disease, hypertension, or any type of heart disease that causes the body to retain fluid. ...
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View Post: Essential Hypertension Clinical Trial: Safety and Tolerability of ...
14 Oct 2009
The purpose of this study is to compare the safety and tolerability of TAK-491 plus chlorthalidone versus olmesartan medoxomil-hydrochlorothiazide in subjects with essential hypertension... Date First Received: October 12, 2009 ...
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View Post: Do Hypertension Medications Really Help?
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7 Nov 2009 by Chrisitan Goodman   ...
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View Post: ISPUB - Effect of antihypertensive therapy on some cognitive ...
7 Nov 2009
Aim- Hypertension associated with the decline in cognitive functions. There are certain studies which revealed that antihypertensive therapy improves the cognitive functions in patients of hypertension. Some other studies do not support this ... In present study, other antihypertensives (amlodipine, chlorthalidone) were also prescribed but because of few numbers of such patients, analysis of possible effect of these additional drugs on cognition was not possible. ...
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View Post: Diuretics, especially HCTZ, equally effective when used second-line
6 Nov 2009
Thiazides are not effective as a first line anti-hypertensive therapy in the area where I practice. Blood pressures are seldom controlled if they are used alone. However, chlorthalidone has comparatively a higher degree of efficacy. ...
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View Post: Differential Effects of Chlorthalidone Versus Spironolactone on ...
6 Apr 2009 by Menon, DV, Arbique, D., Wang, Z., Adams-Huet,...  
Objectives: The objectives were to determine effects of spironolactone and chlorthalidone on SNA and the role of SNA on diuretic-induced insulin resistance in human hypertension. Methods: We conducted a randomized crossover study in 23 ...
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View Post: Hypertension in China causes 1.27 million premature deaths a year ...
5 Oct 2009 by Larry Husten  
This once again documents that one of the cheapest medications (i.e. indapamide or chlorthalidone) remains unsurpassed in preventing one of the most devastating complications in our hypertensive patients. A strategy involving thiazide ...
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View Post: Drug-induced acute myopia following chlorthalidone treatment ...
1 Oct 2007 by Mahesh G, Giridhar A, Saikumar SJ, Fegde Sachin  
We report a case of acute myopia induced by oral consumption of chlorthalidone for systemic hypertension. Chlorthalidone is a monosulfonyl diuretic used widely for the treatment of systemic hypertension. Acute transient myopia may be ...
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View Post: Hypertension Medications
22 Oct 2009
Hypertension or high blood pressure is a condition where the body's systolic blood pressure averages 140 mmHg or higher, and/or its diastolic blood pr. ... Common diuretics include: chlorthalidone (Thalitone), furosemide (Lasix), hydrochlorothiazide (Esidrix) and indapamide (Lozol). Electrolyte imbalances, impotence, breast enlargement in men (gynecomastia), gout, menstrual irregularities, increased blood sugar, blurred vision, and fever. If reducing or eliminating high ...
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