Search results for "Urinary sodium"

Urine: an overlooked biomedium in heart failure?

2020

Rationale and Design of the Efficacy of a Standardized Diuretic Protocol in Acute Heart Failure Study

2021

AIMS: Although acute heart failure (AHF) with volume overload is treated with loop diuretics, their dosing and type of administration are mainly based upon expert opinion. A recent position paper from the Heart Failure Association (HFA) proposed a step-wise pharmacologic diuretic strategy to increase the diuretic response and to achieve rapid decongestion. However, no study has evaluated this protocol prospectively. METHODS AND RESULTS: The Efficacy of a Standardized Diuretic Protocol in Acute Heart Failure (ENACT-HF) study is an international, multicentre, non-randomized, open-label, pragmatic study in AHF patients on chronic loop diuretic therapy, admitted to the hospital for intravenous …

Obesity modifies the relationship between ambulatory blood pressure and natriuresis in children

2001

The objective in the present study was to evaluate if obesity beginning in the first two decades of life influences the relationship between ambulatory blood pressure and urinary sodium excretion.Eighty-five obese and 88 non-obese children aged 3-19 years were included in the study. For each subject, a 24h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and a complete urine collection were simultaneously performed according to the protocols designed. The averages of ambulatory blood pressure and of the urinary excretion rates for sodium, potassium and creatinine were calculated separately for 24-h, awake and sleep periods as defined by a mini-diary.Weight and sodium excretion are directly associated w…