Hyperkalaemia is a risk with low sodium salt in vulnerable patients

BMJ

Volumn 343, Issue 7816, 2011, Pages

  Dent, Alexandra ^a   Walmsley, David ^a   Dhandapani, Shankar ^a  

^a ROYAL LANCASTER INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE ANTAGONIST; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; CREATININE; INSULIN; LISINOPRIL; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM SPARING DIURETIC AGENT; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UREA;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOCRINOLOGY; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOALDOSTERONISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LETTER; MACROCYTIC ANEMIA; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OSTEOARTHRITIS; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; SODIUM RESTRICTION; SPLENECTOMY; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHEMISTRY; HEALTH FOOD; SALT INTAKE;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; HEALTH FOOD; HUMANS; HYPERKALEMIA; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE, DIETARY;

EID: 84856611994     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.d4514     Document Type: Letter

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