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Research Article Free access | 10.1172/JCI102735

METABOLIC AND RENAL STUDIES IN CHRONIC POTASSIUM DEPLETION RESULTING FROM OVERUSE OF LAXATIVES

William B. Schwartz and Arnold S. Relman

Department of Medicine, Tufts College Medical School and the New England Center Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, and the Evans Memorial, Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals, Boston, Massachusetts

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This investigation was supported in part by grants from the National Heart Institute of the National Institutes of Health, U.S.P.H.S.; the Greater Boston Chapter of the Massachusetts Heart Association and Lakeside Laboratories Inc.

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Presented in part in abstract at the 44th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, May 1952.

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Department of Medicine, Tufts College Medical School and the New England Center Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, and the Evans Memorial, Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals, Boston, Massachusetts

3

Markle Scholar in the Medical Sciences.

1

This investigation was supported in part by grants from the National Heart Institute of the National Institutes of Health, U.S.P.H.S.; the Greater Boston Chapter of the Massachusetts Heart Association and Lakeside Laboratories Inc.

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Presented in part in abstract at the 44th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, May 1952.

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Published March 1, 1953 - More info

Published in Volume 32, Issue 3 on March 1, 1953
J Clin Invest. 1953;32(3):258–271. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI102735.
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