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- Title
"Dear Doctor" Warning Letter (Rote-Hand-Brief) on Hydrochlorothiazide and Its Impact on Antihypertensive Prescription.
- Authors
Mahfoud, Felix; Kieble, Marita; Enners, Salka; Werning, Johanna; Laufs, Ulrich; Millenaar, Dominic; Böhm, Michael; Kintscher, Ulrich; Schulz, Martin
- Abstract
The authors discuss a warning letter that expressed safety concerns with regard to medications containing hydrochlorothiazide. Topics mentioned include comparison of average monthly sales of thiazide diuretics and other antihypertensive substances, dose-related increased risk for dermal basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas, and an increase in sales of loop diuretics by some 48,000 packs per month.
- Subjects
SKIN cancer; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; PHYSICIANS
- Publication
Deutsches Ärzteblatt International, 2020, Vol 117, Issue 41, p687
- ISSN
1866-0452
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3238/arztebl.2020.0687