Discuss the drugs that affect sodium absorption
What will be an ideal response?
Patients with congestive heart failure and hypertension are often treated with diuretics, therapeutic agents that cause diuresis (increased urinary output) and thus promote fluid loss from the body. Many of these drugs function by inhibiting tubular reabsorption of sodium. For example, thiazide diuretics such as hydrochlorothiazide inhibit sodium reabsorption in the distal tubule. ACE inhibitor drugs, which block the action of ACE, and aldosterone receptor blockers (ARBs), which block the binding of aldosterone with its renal receptors, are both also beneficial in treating hypertension and congestive heart failure. These two classes of drugs halt the ultimate salt- and fluid-conserving actions and arteriolar constrictor effects of RAAS.
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Fill in the blank with correct word.
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