Prevalence of hypokalemia in older persons: results from the PolSenior national survey.
Marcin AdamczakJerzy ChudekJan Eugeniusz ZejdaMagdalena BartmańskaTomasz GrodzickiTomasz ZdrojewskiAndrzej WięcekPublished in: European geriatric medicine (2021)
This study demonstrates that: older age seems not to appear to be a significant risk factor of hypokalemia. Hypokalemia is more often found in the older hypertensive patients treated with potassium losing diuretics, and prevention of diuretic-induced hypokalemia with oral supplementation of potassium seems to be insufficient.