TITLE

Reduced need for hypertension drugs

PUB. DATE

January 1992

SOURCE

HealthFacts;Jan92, Vol. 17 Issue 152, p1

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Reports that by eating more potassium-rich foods, people taking antihypertensive medication can safely reduce their dosage. Includes other findings of a new study conducted at the University of Naples in Italy; At the end of one year, 81 percent of people who ate potassium-rich foods were able to control their hypertension using less than half the initial drug dosage; More.

ACCESSION #

9202103417

Tags: HYPERTENSION

 

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