Antihypertensive medicine Hydrochlorothiazide is known medicine to control Blood Pressure but now a research claims that its excessive use may lead to skin cancer. Long-term use of drugs that help lower high blood pressure may increase the risk of developing skin cancer, a study with nearly 80,000 participants has claimed.
Hydrochlorothiazide -- one of the most commonly used antihypertensive drugs worldwide -- is a thiazide diuretic (water pill) that helps prevent your body from absorbing too much salt, which can cause fluid retention.The findings revealed that using medicines that contain hydrochlorothiazide increases the risk of developing squamous cell carcinoma -- skin cancer that develops in the cells of the outer layer of the skin -- up to seven times. "We knew that hydrochlorothiazide made the skin more vulnerable to damage from the sun's UV rays, but what is new and also…
