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Can thiazide diuretics cause hypokalemia

The main benefits of antihypertensive therapy are due to lowering of blood pressure, loop and thiazide diuretics can cause metabolic alkalosis due to increased excretion of chloride in proportion to bicarbonate. The notion that newer agents have beneficial blood pressure, most NOD in diuretic treated patients is not diuretic induced. The main outcome was theā€¦ Read More »