Sentence examples for diuretics for from inspiring English sources

"We have not recommended laxatives or diuretics for years and years," Dr. Hensrud said.

The study found that people who took the diuretics for a year or more had half as many hip fractures as those who did not take them.

For instance, heart patients who in the past took diuretics for blood pressure are now prescribed beta blockers and calcium channel antagonists, which can lead to more toxic overdoses.

The studies used a variety of drugs — for example, statins for the prevention of coronary heart disease, blood thinners for stroke, diuretics for heart failure, and biguanides like Glucophage and Metaglip for impending diabetes.

Thiazide diuretics, for example, increase potassium loss from the body, usually necessitating the intake of additional potassium, which is particularly plentiful in foods such as bananas, citrus fruits, vegetables, and potatoes.

Diuretics for hypertension cost about $25 a year compared with about $250 for an ACE inhibitor and $500 for a calcium channel blocker, according to Dr. Paul Whelton, a leader of the study who is also professor of epidemiology at Tulane University.

Jacques Rogge, an executive board member of the I.O.C. and vice chairman of the committee's medical commission, said Dragneva and Minchev tested positive for furosemide, the same diuretic for which another Bulgarian lifter, Ivan Ivanov, was kicked out.

Mr. McCollum was "in a hot environment without air-conditioning, and he may have been further predisposed to developing hyperthermia due to morbid obesity" and use of a diuretic for hypertension, the report noted.

For example, he said, if a patient has serious arthritis and hypertension and cannot go to places without a readily accessible bathroom on the first floor because she takes a diuretic for high blood pressure, perhaps the blood pressure medication should be changed.

Patients who received an antihypertensive drug for >1 week, except a diuretic for edema, were recorded as having hypertension.

The patient received an angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor, a beta blocker and a diuretic for ongoing management of CHF for the next 2 years.