Abstract
Diuretics are used alone or in combination with other drugs to eliminate edema and increasingly in patients with arterial hypertension and/or heart failure. This explains the increasing prescription of drugs from this group of agents in elderly patients. Thus about two-thirds of all diuretic prescriptions are for patients over 65 years old (Table 1). After the cardiac glycosides, diuretics are the second most frequently prescribed agents in West Germany.
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Mutschler, E., Möhrke, W., Spahn, H., Völger, KD. (1989). Treatment with Diuretics in the Elderly. In: Platt, D. (eds) Gerontology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74996-4_22
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