Madrid, Spain – 29 August 2025: Targeting high-normal potassium levels reduced the risk of arrhythmias, hospitalisation for heart failure or arrhythmia and death compared with no intervention, ...
EurekAlert!: Maintaining normal serum potassium levels in peritoneal dialysis may reduce risk of peritonitis
Maintaining normal serum potassium levels in peritoneal dialysis may reduce risk of peritonitis
Targeting high-normal potassium levels reduced the risk of arrhythmias, hospitalization for heart failure or arrhythmia and death compared with no intervention, according to late-breaking research ...
Hypokalemia and even low-normal plasma potassium levels increase the risk of ventricular arrhythmias among patients with cardiovascular disease. An assessment of a strategy of actively increasing ...
Maintaining high blood potassium levels, for instance, by taking supplements, may help lower heart failure risk. Image credit: Viktoriya Skorikova/Getty Images For people at high risk of ventricular ...
EurekAlert!: Increasing potassium levels improve outcomes in patients at high risk of ventricular arrhythmia
Increasing potassium levels improve outcomes in patients at high risk of ventricular arrhythmia
Healio: Low serum potassium levels correlate with mortality risk in patients on hemodialysis
Low serum potassium levels correlate with mortality risk in patients on hemodialysis
The body needs the mineral potassium to regulate muscle contraction. The heart, being a muscle, may respond to changes in potassium levels by developing an irregular heartbeat, or arrhythmia. Atrial ...
LONDON, England—The common practice of administering potassium to keep levels up during CABG with the aim of preventing postoperative atrial fibrillation (AF) doesn’t seem to be doing much good after ...
For the prevention of new-onset atrial fibrillation (AF) after isolated coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, giving potassium supplements only when levels dropped below the lower limit of ...