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Generally, the first election medicine in the treatment of the arterial hypertension (HTA) is a diuretic. The elimination of urine increases and go out of the organism, what it serves to lower the TA, so much for the lost liquid as because this way it diminishes the resistance to the blood flow of the glasses of the organism. (Nevertheless, the tiazidas can increase the level of blood cholesterol).
With the diuretics, one notices that one urinates much more often and more rapid after the liquids ingestion. Apart from it, the collateral effects of the diuretics are small, emphasizing the loss of potassium or hipopotasemia, that forces to continue the potassium levels in blood by means of analysis and to take potassium supplements, since it is not enough usually with the ingestion of fruits rich in potassium (orange, banana) to correct the deficits of potassium caused by diuretics. If little salt takes, the diuretic will be more effective and the loss of potassium will be minor.
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