Share The Wealth by Chris Gupta
August 06, 2004

Heart Failure Drug That Saves Lives Can Be Fatal


Typically, there is all sorts of fan fare when it comes to saving lives from toxic drugs, but little effort is made to compare actual risk to the patients. When problems do surface, god know after how many injuries and deaths, all we get is a note like the following.

"Closer laboratory monitoring and more judicious use of spironolactone may reduce the occurrence of this complication," conclude the authors." is about as far as will get and it's business as usual.

Health Canada and their ilk just standby and do nothing until they are threatened into action. Yet they are all over the place for trivial, or in some case no, adverse effects when it comes to nutritional supplements. Sadly, by design, there is no accountability for many governmental bodies hence there is a lot of hot air but nothing changes.

See also: Roots of Medical & Other Monopolies

Chris Gupta
----------------------

Heart Failure Drug That Saves Lives Can Be Fatal

August 04, 2004

A commonly prescribed drug for congestive heart failure can cause serious life-threatening complications when used in combination with other heart drugs, according to Canadian researchers.

Researchers report an increase in hyperkalemia, a life-threatening condition caused by high potassium levels after heart patients in Ontario were prescribed spironolactone in combination with angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors.

In 1999 a Randomized Aldactone Evaluation Study (RALES) reported that spironolactone significantly improved outcomes in patients with severe heart failure.

These findings appear to be responsible for a dramatic increase in the use of spironolactone to treat heart failure patients.

The Canadian researchers say their study should serve as a warning to doctors prescribing medication based on carefully controlled clinical trials.

For their study, researchers analyzed the rate of spironolactone prescriptions and the rate of hospitalization for hyperkalemia in ambulatory patients before and after the publication of the Randomized Aldactone Evaluation Study (RALES).

Between 1994 and 2001 spironolactone use among patients using ACE inhibitor drugs increased from 34 patients out of every 1000 to 149 per-thousand.

The Canadian study is published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

"The publication of RALES was associated with abrupt increases in the rate of prescriptions for spironolactone and in hyperkalemia-associated morbidity and mortality. Closer laboratory monitoring and more judicious use of spironolactone may reduce the occurrence of this complication," conclude the authors.

 


posted by Chris Gupta on Friday August 6 2004
updated on Saturday September 24 2005

URL of this article:
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2004/08/06/heart_failure_drug_that_saves_lives_can_be_fatal.htm

 

 


Related Articles

Artificial Water Fluoridation: Off To A Poor Start / Fluoride Injures The Newborn
Please watch this short 5 minute video: Little Things Matter: The Impact of Toxins on the Developing Brain Toxins such as Arsenic, Lead, Mercury, Aluminum and other known and unknown chemicals, that are often above the legal limits, are deliberately added to our water to manage the disposal of toxic industrial waste chemicals under the pretense of "safe and effective" for water fluoridation mantra.Knowing and acting on the above should... [read more]
December 30, 2014 - Chris Gupta

Drinking Water Fluoridation is Genotoxic & Teratogenic
This paper by Prof. Joe Cummins is a very important 5 minute delegation made to London Ontario Canada "Civic Works Committee" public participation meeting on January 25, 2012 on fluoride*. While a bit technical it is short and easy to grasp. A must read as it goes to the heart of the matter regarding the well established toxicity of fluoride which is well in all scientific circles even before water... [read more]
February 06, 2012 - Chris Gupta

Democracy At Work? - PPM On Fluoride
Here is a commentary on the recent (Jan, 25th, 2011) Public Participation Meeting (PPM) on Fluoride in the City of London, Ontario. The meeting started with a strong pro fluoride stance form the City engineer. His lack of knowledge on chemistry of the toxic wastes used to fluoridate water could embarrass even a high school student never mind his own profession. He blatantly violated his "duty to public welfare" as... [read more]
January 29, 2012 - Chris Gupta

 

 


Readers' Comments















Security code:




Please enter the security code displayed on the above grid


Due to our anti-spamming policy the comments you are posting will show up online within few hours from the posting time.



 

   

 

A Person Is Only As Valuable As She Can Be Of Help To Others

 

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

These articles are brought to you strictly for educational and informational purposes.
Be sure to consult your health practitioner of choice prior to any specific use of any of the non drug device or food based medicinal products referenced herein.

 

1251



Enter your Email


Preview | Powered by FeedBlitz


 

 


Most Popular Articles

Bad News About Statin Drugs

Cod Liver Oil - Number One Superfood

Statin Drugs & Memory Loss

Cold remedies that really work.- update

STATIN DRUGS Side Effects

 

 

Recent articles
Drinking Water Fluoridation is Genotoxic & Teratogenic

Democracy At Work? - PPM On Fluoride

"Evidence Be Damned...Patient Outcome Is Irrelevant" - From Helke

Why Remove Fluoride From Phosphate Rock To Make Fertilizer

FOFI Codex Meeting Report On Labelling May 9 - 13, 2011

Misconduct Of Health Canada Bureaucrats


Archive of all articles on this site

 

 


Most recent comments

Cold remedies that really work.- update

Why Doctors Don't Recommend More The Use Of Coq10?

Re: Dispelling the Night-Time Frequent Urination

Health via Meditation/Stress Reduction

Build a Low cost & simple Magnetic Pulser

 

 

Candida International

What Does MHRA Stand For??

Bono and Bush Party without Koch: AIDS Industry Makes a Mockery of Medical Science

Profit as Usual and to Hell with the Risks: Media Urge that Young Girls Receive Mandatory Cervical Cancer Vaccine

 

Health Supreme

Multiple sclerosis is Lyme disease: Anatomy of a cover-up

Chromotherapy in Cancer

Inclined Bed Therapy: Tilt your bed for healthful sleep

 

Evolving Collective Intelligence

Let Us Please Frame Collective Intelligence As Big As It Is

Reflections on the evolution of choice and collective intelligence

Whole System Learning and Evolution -- and the New Journalism

Gathering storms of unwanted change

Protect Sources or Not? - More Complex than It Seems

 

Consensus

Islanda, quando il popolo sconfigge l'economia globale.

Il Giorno Fuori dal Tempo, Il significato energetico del 25 luglio

Rinaldo Lampis: L'uso Cosciente delle Energie

Attivazione nei Colli Euganei (PD) della Piramide di Luce

Contatti con gli Abitanti Invisibili della Natura

 

Diary of a Knowledge Broker

Giving It Away, Making Money

Greenhouses That Change the World

Cycles of Communication and Collaboration

What Is an "Integrated Solution"?

Thoughts about Value-Add

 

Best sellers from