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What Is The Medication For Hypertension?
my father is 80 plus and is known hypertensive and Niddm type II for the last one decade and has been using amlodepine for bp but since two weeks bp is 170/90 and losar h was prescribed bid. will there be any potassium loss ? He is not known heart patient. please suggest suitable drug for bp.
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Losar H is a good addition to amlodipine, it will protect the kidney in diabetes apart from controlling the BP. Now losar H, has two components losartan which increases potassium and hydrochlorthiazide which decrease potassium, henceforth achieving potassium balance. Lastly I would like to add my clinical experience that many a times in 80 plus pt there are electrolyte imbalance with the hydrochlorthiazide. So do monitor potassium and sodium both atleast after 3 weeks of starting the drug
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