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Pharmacology of diuretics

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Antihypertensive Therapy

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A diuretic agent should be redefined for present-day purposes as a drug which increases sodium excretion by direct action on the kidney. A great many drugs — and the number is now growing at the rate of two to five a month — are known or supposed to have this effect. The scope of this paper will be limited to a consideration of some pharmacological aspects of the action of a few major compounds, which are, or at least should be, representative of the drugs currently used in therapeutics.

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Peters, G. (1966). Pharmacology of diuretics. In: Gross, F. (eds) Antihypertensive Therapy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49737-7_4

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