Xipamide: no advantage over bendrofluazide in hypertension.

Article date: October 1984

By: LE Ramsay, S Freestone, in Volume 18, Issue 4, pages 616-618

In patients with uncontrolled hypertension addition of xipamide 20 mg daily to bendrofluazide 5 mg daily produced no significant additive antihypertensive effect, and the 95% confidence limits excluded a clinically important response. Xipamide treatment worsened hypokalaemia and increased the blood urea concentration significantly.

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2125.1984.tb02514.x

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