Reducing blood pressure (BP) is a highly effective strategy for long-term stroke prevention. Despite overwhelmingly clear evidence from randomized trials that antihypertensive therapy substantially ...

Background Loop diuretics are commonly prescribed in the community, not always to patients with a recorded diagnosis of heart failure (HF). The rate of HF events in patients prescribed loop diuretics ...

Introduction: Acute heart failure (AHF) affects a significant proportion of the US population. The first-line therapy for decompensated AHF is loop diuretics. However, diuretic resistance in AHF cases ...