Current concepts of pharmacotherapy in hypertension: thiazide-type diuretics: ongoing considerations on mechanism of action.
Thiazide-type diuretics have enjoyed a considerable success in the management of hypertension. These drugs have assumed a standard-of-care position in the minds of many health care providers; however, a number of questions remain unresolved in relation to their use. Such questions include issues of mechanism of action, comparability to loop-diuretics in their actions, class-effect, and the basis for their additivity with non-diuretic antihypertensive medication classes. Understanding these issues is important to the effective use of these compounds.
Sica
Domenic A
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Section of Clinical Pharmacology and Hypertension, Division of Nephrology, Box 980160, MCV Station, Medical College of Virginia of Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298-0160, USA. dsica@hsc.vcu.edu
D001581:Benzothiadiazines; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000187:drug effects*; D004231:Diuresis / Q000187:drug effects; D004232:Diuretics; D006801:Humans; D049993:Sodium Chloride Symporter Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology*
D001581:Benzothiadiazines; D004232:Diuretics; D049993:Sodium Chloride Symporter Inhibitors