Salvatore J . Graziano, a New York lawyer representing the patients, said the action was prompted by a National Institutes of Health study last year that showed patients using Cardura were twice as likely to be hospitalized for congestive heart failure as were patients using a cheaper diuretic drug.
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To the classic diuretic drugs that wring excess fluid out of the system, a steady stream of studies has added an array of other medications to doctors'quivers _ drugs that dilate blood vessels, reduce pressures within the heart, limit backflow, and reverse the " remodelling " changes.
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"' Chlortalidone "'( USAN ) is a diuretic drug used to treat hypertension, originally marketed as Hygroton in the USA . It is described as a thiazide diuretic ( or, rather, a thiazide-like diuretic because it acts similarly to the thiazides but does not contain the benzothiadiazine molecular structure ).
