FACTORS INFLUENCING SERUM POTASSIUM IN TREATED HYPERTENSION

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  • 1 January 1977
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 46  (184) , 401-410
Abstract
A retrospective surgery of serum K measurements in a blood pressure clinic provided evidence that K supplements averaging 24 mmol daily were effective in elevating serum K concentration and reducing incidence of hypokalemia in diuretic-treated hypertensives. In patients treated with bendrofluazide the serum K concentration was related to the dose of diuretic, but not to age, sex, body weight, supine blood pressure or serum creatinine. There was no evidence that drugs other than diuretics or K (including .beta.-adrenergic blockers) had a clinically significant influenced on serum K. The major part of the variation in serum K between patients could not be explained by variables examined.

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