(HealthDay News) — For new starters of loop diuretics, empiric potassium supplementation is associated with reduced risk of all-cause death, according to a study published online July 16 in PLOS ONE.

PHILADELPHIA, PA — Empiric treatment with potassium supplements was associated with a 7% decline in all-cause mortality (p=0.003) in a matched cohort study of >600 000 patients with a variety of ...

Patients taking prescription potassium supplements together with loop diuretics for heart failure have better survival rates than patients taking diuretics without the potassium. Moreover, the degree ...

Study finds no significant difference in hospitalization and death rates between patients who had a loop diuretic prescription at the time of peritoneal dialysis vs those who did not. Loop diuretic ...

A higher dose of loop diuretics was associated with more rapid skeletal muscle depletion and shorter survival in patients with liver cirrhosis, independent of the severity of disease, Japanese ...