Safety of benzodiazepines in patients with acute heart failure: A propensity score-matching study.

Aim: Benzodiazepines (BZDs) are one of the most used drugs to control symptoms in patients with acute heart failure (HF). However, the evidence on its safety is inconclusive. The objective was to describe the characteristics of patients admitted for HF and treated with BZDs and to assess the relationship of this treatment and mortality.

[Primary hyperaldosteronism in a population of hypertensive patients].

The diagnosis of primary hyperaldosteronism (PHPA) has progressively increased over the last years and some authors consider it as the main cause of secondary hypertension. We studied the prevalence of PHPA in hypertensive patients followed at the Hypertension Unit from July 1999 to July 2017. A total of 2500 patients were included and diagnosis of PHPA was done in 79 of them (3.