Example sentences for: prazosin

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  • The VA Cooperative Study on Antihypertensive agents was a double-blind, randomized controlled trial comparing atenolol, captopril, clonidine, diltiazem, hydrochlorothiazide, prazosin, and placebo for differences in antihypertensive efficacy in 1,105 men who had mild diastolic hypertension [ 10 ] . A highly significant weight gain of 1 kilogram was observed at 8 weeks with prazosin compared to baseline (p < .001), and this gain was also statistically significant when compared to the 8-week weight changes in all other groups that had experienced either weight loss or no mean weight change (p < 0.05).

  • He noted that prazosin blocks heat shock protein expression in myocardium, and it has been hypothesized that this may leave myocardium more vulnerable to injury [ 20 ] .

  • 1%) [ 11 ] . The number of men treated with prazosin decreased from 62 at the beginning of the trial to 28 by the end.

  • There was no weight change in that study, but two other studies demonstrated both an increase in weight as well as laboratory changes consistent with volume expansion for prazosin [ 8 9 ] . Bauer and his colleagues suggested that a net increase in total body sodium from an acute renal effect of prazosin was offset by a decrease in actual body weight.

  • A 1984 study of prazosin reported by Bauer revealed increases in plasma volume, interstitial fluid volume, and extracellular fluid volume following both short-term and long-term therapy [ 7 ] . In this study of 14 hypertensive men, there was a significant 1.4 L average increase in ECFV, with a 200 mL average increase in plasma volume (measured with radioisotopic assays) that occurred within 3-6 weeks of initiation, lasted during 5 to 6 months of chronic therapy, and was still present during a two-week washout period.


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