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To the Editor: In regard to our article on improved mineral balance and skeletal metabolism in postmenopausal women given potassium bicarbonate (June 23 issue),¹ some concern has been expressed about the risk of hyperkalemia with the doses used (60 to 120 mmol of potassium bicarbonate per 60 kg of body weight per day), particularly in older subjects whose renal function may have declined as part of aging.

We would like to emphasize that pending the results of long-term studies (lasting years), the findings in our short-term study (which lasted for only days) provide no basis for recommending potassium bicarbonate in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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