Prolonged digitoxin half-life in very elderly patients
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Evidence for a Prolonged Biological Half-Life of Na in Patients with Hypertension
• In the treatment of human hypertension, the effectiveness of sodium restriction by either dietary means or natriuretic agents is now well established. This response to sodium restriction suggested that hypertensives might suffer from an increase in total body sodium. The first measurements of the sodium content of individuals with hypertension were done, in 1951, by the technique of isotopic ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Age and Ageing
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0002-0729,1468-2834
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/27.2.222