According to a study in JAMA Dermatology, the prescribing rates of spironolactone for acne in women rose about 300% from 2017 to 2020. Here's what to know about spironolactone. IE 11 is not supported.

Of the spironolactone initiators captured in the study, 11.5% were ages 12-18 when they got their first spironolactone prescription. The initiators typically did not have hypertension (4.0%) or ...

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As for internists who prescribed spironolactone for acne, the proportion who checked potassium levels within the first 180 days dropped from 39.7% to 37.7% from 2008 to 2018.

Amiloride, a potassium-sparing diuretic, was noninferior to spironolactone in reducing home-measured systolic blood pressure (BP) after 12 weeks of treatment in patients with true resistant ...

Spironolactone, a synthetic steroid, is routinely used to manage heart failure, hypertension, and edema. Off-label, the drug is also used to treat acne, hidradenitis, alopecia, and hirsutism ...

In females and those with PCOS, spironolactone is used with birth control symptoms. While it reduces testosterone, it does not function as birth control in males.