Why the study?
Does diuretic treatment improve clinical symptoms and alter neuroendocrine responses in patients with untreated heart failure?
Does diuretic treatment improve clinical symptoms and alter neuroendocrine responses in patients with untreated heart failure?
Diuretic treatment in moderate heart failure improves clinical symptoms but stimulates the renin-angiotensin system, suggesting RAAS activation is partly a response to diuretics rather than just the disease process.
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Diuretics may relieve symptoms in moderate HF while activating RAAS; hypothesis-generating on diuretic versus disease contributions to neuroendocrine response.
Bayliss et al. (1987) studied this question.
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