Kim’s public health blog

ScienceDaily (May 14, 2009) — New research supports the findings of a landmark drug comparison study published in 2002 in which a diuretic drug or “water pill” outperformed other medications for high blood pressure. A scientific team including investigators from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston reports the findings in the May 11 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine. Comment: Further studies looking for weaknesses in the original research have confirmed that diuretics still outperform other medicines in controlling blood pressure. I wonder how much disability and death could have been avoided is we had kept the diuretics (available for 50+ years) as the base of our armamentarium.