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supplement:
Potassium
drug:
Antipsychotic Agents
Research Papers that Mention the Interaction
“The mean potassium level of psychotic patients was lower than that of the overall study population (3.72 vs. 3.81 mmol/L, P<.05).”
High prevalence of hypokalemia in acute psychiatric inpatients.“ Antipsychotic drugs prolong QT interval usually by blocking the potassium IKr current.”
“It was postulated that antipsychotics were found to block the potassium efflux channel and prohibit intracellular potassium from shifting into the extracellular compartment leading to hypokalemia, a phenomena that is rarely seen with clinical use of the drugs without any overdose.”
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