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Micronutrient Nutritional Losses in Patient’s Receiving Diuretic Pharmacotherapy for the Reduction of Hypertension
Despite major breakthroughs in the biological sciences, cardiovascular disease (CVD) continues to dominate the spotlight as one of the nation’s number top killers, claiming 950,000 lives a year, and 260 billion dollars annually in health care costs. A long list of risk factors contribute to the disease’s extremely variable etiology. Obesity, hypertension, poor nutrition, hypercholesterolemia, sedentary lifestyle, smoking and alcohol intake are a few of the modifiable factors toward which therapies have been aimed.
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