{"title":"Symptoms and well-being during antihypertensive treatment with thiazide diuretics.","authors":"G Berglund","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Diuretic drugs seem to be well tolerated during long-term antihypertensive treatment. Although they induce severe side effects necessitating withdrawal more often than placebo, the frequency of such withdrawals seem to be equal to that induced by beta-blocker treatment. The subjective tolerability as judged by questionnaires for symptoms and well being scores seems to indicate an over-all small improvement in patient well being. The effects in this respect seem to be similar to those exerted by a selective beta-blocker.</p>","PeriodicalId":77619,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian journal of primary health care. Supplement","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1990-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Scandinavian journal of primary health care. Supplement","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Diuretic drugs seem to be well tolerated during long-term antihypertensive treatment. Although they induce severe side effects necessitating withdrawal more often than placebo, the frequency of such withdrawals seem to be equal to that induced by beta-blocker treatment. The subjective tolerability as judged by questionnaires for symptoms and well being scores seems to indicate an over-all small improvement in patient well being. The effects in this respect seem to be similar to those exerted by a selective beta-blocker.