Potassium WisdomCard™
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Research Notes on Potassium
Potassium is a mineral required for the proper functioning of many major organ systems. It is essential for the heart, kidneys, muscles, nerves, and digestive system to operate normally, and is required for regulating fluid balance, the body's acid-base balance, and blood pressure.
Fast Facts:
- Foods high in potassium include bananas, cantaloupe, grapefruit, oranges, tomato or prune juice, honeydew melons, molasses and potatoes.
- Having too much potassium in the blood is called hyperkalemia and having too little in the blood is known as hypokalemia.
- Most of your potassium is found inside the cells in your body.
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Latest Headlines on Potassium
What is Potassium?
What Are The Uses for Potassium?
- A.D.A.M. (via UMM): Uses for Potassium
- About.com: Potassium
- Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine (via Healthline): Potassium
What Are The Side Effects, Interactions and Precautions for Potassium?
- A.D.A.M. (via UMM): Precautions and Interactions of Potassium
- MedicineNet: Side Effects of Potassium Injections
- HealthTouch: Interactions & Side Effects of Potassium
Wisdom, Blogs and Message Boards about Potassium
- Health Boards: Spiro and Potassium
- Dee's Support Circle Message Board: How Much Potassium
- Yahoo 360: Foods High In Potassium
- YouTube: Potassium 101
- Drugs.com: Potassium Content Of Foods List
Clinical Trials for Potassium
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Clinical Trials on Potassium
- Center Watch: Clinical Trials on Potassium
Abuse of Potassium
- Nutrient Facts: Potassium Toxicity Signs
- WrongDiagnosis: Potassium Toxicity
- Wikipedia: Hyperkalemia
Scientific and Medical Journal Articles on Potassium
- PubMed Central: Medical Journal Articles on Potassium
- JAMA: Medical Journal Articles on Potassium
- Google Scholar: Medical Articles on Potassium
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- Contributor: Jacky Gamble
- Reviewer: Nicole Kinsey
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Last update: Oct. 15, 2009
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Meet our contributors and reviewers
- Contributor: Jacky Gamble
- Reviewer: Nicole Kinsey
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Redirects: Potasium, Pottasium, Pottassium
- Last update: Nov. 3, 2008
Each WisdomCard is handcrafted by our team of physician-guided health advocates. Our goal is to make it easy for you to find the most useful health resources for any health topic by filtering out spam and bad links.
