• Twenty patients aged 33 to 69 years with uncomplicated hypertension, no heart disease,
and normal stress test results underwent ambulatory ECG monitoring a month after receiving …

• Forty-four patients with uncomplicated systemic hypertension underwent 48-hour
electrocardiographic monitoring before and after four weeks of treatment with …

The arrhythmogenic potential of diuretic-induced hypokalemia in patients with
uncomplicated hypertension has been controversial Thirty-two hypertensive patients with …

We studied 17 hypertensive men to determine the relationship of diuretic-induced
hypokalemia to ventricular ectopic activity (VEA). Blood values and 24-hour ambulatory ECG …

In view of evidence suggesting an association of mild hypokalaemia with cardiac arrhythmia,
the arrhythmogenic potentials of potassium losing and potassium sparing diuretic treatments …

The need to avoid hypokalemia during diuretic therapy in nondigitalized patients has been
questioned. Twenty-one patients with (1) mild essential hypertension,(2) plasma potassium …

Thiazide diuretics used alone to treat hypertension can cause hypokalaemia in a substantial
proportion of patients. The possibility exists that any benefit of reducing high blood pressure …

Discussion DR. RICHARD L. TANNEN (Director, Division of Nephrology, and Professor of
Internal Medicine, The University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan): This …

Objective.—To investigate the patterns of electrolyte abnormalities resulting from thiazide
administration and whether they cause ventricular arrhythmias, and to help resolve the …

The focus of this article is hypokalemia, its electrophysiologic properties, and clinical
arrhythmias. The effects of potassium on the electrophysiologic properties of the heart have …