In addition, various drug-drug interactions are recognized to occur with diuretics. Diuretic-related side effects are more common and of a greater intensity with loop diuretics. Thiazide-related side effects are somewhat more common with longer-acting compounds, such as chlorthalidone and metolazone.
Mochtar Lubis was an Indonesian Batak journalist and novelist who co-founded Indonesia Raya. His novel Senja di Jakarta was the first Indonesian novel to be translated into English. He was a critic of Sukarno and was imprisoned by him. He has been described as a renaissance man par excellence.
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