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#Question id: 11939


Which of the following would cause the greatest degree of hyperkalemia?

#7. System Physiology – Animal
  1. Increase in potassium intake from 60 to 180 mmol/day in a person with normal kidneys and a normal aldosterone system
  2. Chronic treatment with a diuretic that inhibits the action of aldosterone
  3. Decrease in sodium intake from 200 to 100 mmol/day
  4. Chronic treatment with a diuretic that inhibits loop of Henle Na+-2Cl−-K+ co-transport