Dilacor xr vs. Potassium: side effect and effectiveness comparison - a phase IV clinical study
Summary:
We compare the side effects and drug effectiveness of Dilacor xr and Potassium. The phase IV clinical study is created by eHealthMe based on reports (from sources including the FDA) of 153,112 people who take Dilacor xr and Potassium, and is updated regularly. You can use the study as a second opinion to make health care decisions.
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On Jun, 30, 2022
153,112 people who take Dilacor xr and Potassium are studied.
What is Dilacor xr?
Dilacor xr has active ingredients of diltiazem hydrochloride. It is often used in high blood pressure. eHealthMe is studying from 857 Dilacor xr users for its effectiveness, alternative drugs and more.
What is Potassium?
Potassium has active ingredients of potassium. It is often used in hypokalemia. eHealthMe is studying from 45,579 Potassium users for its effectiveness, alternative drugs and more.
Number of reports submitted per year:
Drugs being compared in this study:
- Dilacor Xr (diltiazem hydrochloride)
- Potassium (potassium)
Most common side effects of the drugs, overall:
Most common side effects of the drugs, in long term (1+ years) use:
Drug effectiveness:
Dilacor Xr:
- not at all: 2.37 %
- somewhat: 18.92 %
- moderate: 36.14 %
- high: 33.25 %
- very high: 9.33 %
Potassium:
- not at all: 1.17 %
- somewhat: 11.74 %
- moderate: 43.84 %
- high: 33.66 %
- very high: 9.59 %
Want to compare Dilacor xr with Potassium?
Personalize this study to your gender and age (0-99+).How to use the study?
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Alternative drugs to, pros and cons of:
- Dilacor xr (832 reports)
- Potassium (45,002 reports)
Common Potassium side effects:
- Abdominal discomfort: 725 reports
- Abdominal distension: 496 reports
- Abdominal pain: 915 reports
- Abdominal pain upper: 846 reports
- Abnormal behavior: 103 reports
- Acute kidney failure: 731 reports
- Acute respiratory failure: 134 reports
- Adverse drug reaction: 232 reports
- Adverse event: 161 reports
- Ageusia (loss of taste functions of the tongue): 117 reports
- Agitation (state of anxiety or nervous excitement): 226 reports
- Agranulocytosis (a deficiency of granulocytes in the blood, causing increased vulnerability to infection): 285 reports
- Alanine aminotransferase increased: 125 reports
- Anaemia (lack of blood): 1,004 reports
- Anaphylaxis (serious allergic reaction that is rapid in onset and may cause death): 119 reports
- Appetite - decreased (decreased appetite occurs when you have a reduced desire to eat): 1,235 reports
- Appetite - increased (increased appetite is when you want to eat much more often or in larger quantities than your body requires): 124 reports
- Arrhythmias (irregular heartbeat): 415 reports
- Arthritis (form of joint disorder that involves inflammation of one or more joints): 477 reports
- Arthropathy: 248 reports
- Ascites (accumulation of fluid in the abdominal cavity): 147 reports
- Aspartate aminotransferase increased: 118 reports
- Asthma: 346 reports
- Atrial fibrillation/flutter (atrial fibrillation and flutter are abnormal heart rhythms in which the atria, or upper chambers of the heart, are out of sync with the ventricles): 847 reports
- Back disorder: 114 reports
- Back injury: 103 reports
- Back pain: 1,178 reports
- Bacterial infection: 107 reports
- Balance disorder: 490 reports
- Bleeding disorders: 108 reports
- Blindness: 112 reports
- Blister (small pocket of fluid within the upper layers of the skin caused by forceful rubbing (friction), burning, freezing, chemical exposure): 299 reports
- Blood creatinine increased: 320 reports
- Blood glucose decreased: 178 reports
- Blood glucose increased: 498 reports
- Blood iron decreased: 138 reports
- Blood magnesium decreased: 167 reports
- Blood potassium decreased: 800 reports
- Blood pressure fluctuation: 194 reports
- Blood pressure management: 194 reports
- Blood sodium decreased: 112 reports
- Blood urine present: 120 reports
- Body height decreased: 168 reports
- Bone disorder: 121 reports
- Bone pain: 287 reports
- Bradycardia (abnormally slow heart action): 120 reports
- Breast cancer: 107 reports
- Breathing difficulty: 3,157 reports
- Bronchitis (inflammation of the mucous membrane in the bronchial tubes): 621 reports
- Burning sensation: 290 reports
- Cardiac arrest: 218 reports
- Cardiac disorder: 478 reports
- Cardiac failure: 397 reports
- Cardiac failure congestive: 803 reports
- Cataract (clouding of the lens inside the eye): 312 reports
- Cellulitis (infection under the skin): 410 reports
- Cerebral haemorrhage (bleeding within the brain): 134 reports
- Chest pain: 1,132 reports
- Chills (felling of cold): 481 reports
- Chronic kidney disease: 735 reports
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (a progressive disease that makes it hard to breathe): 453 reports
- Cognitive disorder (mental health disorders affects learning, memory, perception, and problem solving): 148 reports
- Colitis (inflammation of colon): 149 reports
- Confusion: 135 reports
- Confusional state: 628 reports
- Consciousness - decreased: 117 reports
- Constipation: 1,111 reports
- Coronary artery occlusion (complete obstruction of blood flow in a coronary artery): 118 reports
- Coronary heart disease (narrowing or blockage of the coronary arteries): 101 reports
- Cough: 1,303 reports
- Coughing up blood: 183 reports
- Crohn's disease (condition that causes inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract): 348 reports
- Crying: 111 reports
- Death: 1,804 reports
- Deep venous thrombosis (blood clot in a major vein that usually develops in the legs and/or pelvis): 253 reports
- Dehydration (dryness resulting from the removal of water): 954 reports
- Depressed mood: 128 reports
- Depression: 838 reports
- Device related infection: 119 reports
- Diabetes: 298 reports
- Diarrhea: 3,611 reports
- Diplopia (double vision): 106 reports
- Discomfort: 141 reports
- Disease progression: 300 reports
- Disturbance in attention: 159 reports
- Dizziness: 2,288 reports
- Drowsiness: 846 reports
- Drug effect decreased: 146 reports
- Drug hypersensitivity: 414 reports
- Drug ineffective: 2,397 reports
- Drug intolerance (drug sensitivity): 187 reports
- Drug withdrawal syndrome (interfere with normal social, occupational, or other functioning. are not due to another medical condition, drug use, or discontinuation): 125 reports
- Dry eyes (lack of adequate tears): 145 reports
- Dry mouth: 336 reports
- Dry skin: 304 reports
- Dyskinesia (abnormality or impairment of voluntary movement): 116 reports
- Dyspnea exertional: 316 reports
- Dysstasia (difficulty in standing): 152 reports
- Ear pain: 119 reports
- Emotional distress: 211 reports
- Erythema multiforme (a type of hypersensitivity reaction): 144 reports
- Eye disorder: 128 reports
- Eye irritation: 124 reports
- Eye pain: 151 reports
- Eye swelling: 119 reports
- Faeces discolored: 121 reports
- Fainting (loss of consciousness and postural tone): 428 reports
- Fall: 2,157 reports
- Fatigue (feeling of tiredness): 3,877 reports
- Febrile neutropenia (fever with reduced white blood cells): 174 reports
- Feeling cold: 138 reports
- Feeling hot: 207 reports
- Fever: 1,061 reports
- Fibromyalgia (a long-term condition which causes pain all over the body): 123 reports
- Flatulence (flatus expelled through the anus): 280 reports
- Fluid overload (too much fluid in the blood): 197 reports
- Fluid retention (an abnormal accumulation of fluid in the blood): 818 reports
- Foot fracture: 149 reports
- Full blood count decreased: 204 reports
- Fungal infection: 148 reports
- Gait disturbance: 1,039 reports
- Gallbladder disorder: 106 reports
- Gallstones (stone formation by bile component): 190 reports
- Gastric disorder (disease of stomach): 157 reports
- Gastric ulcer (stomach ulcer): 190 reports
- Gastroenteritis viral (inflammation of stomach and intestine caused by virus infection): 115 reports
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease (a condition in which stomach contents leak backward from the stomach into the oesophagus): 470 reports
- Gastrointestinal disorder (functional problems of gastrointestinal tract): 221 reports
- Gastrointestinal haemorrhage (bleeding gastrointestinal tract): 786 reports
- General physical health deterioration (weak health status): 249 reports
- Gout (uric acid crystals building up in the body): 191 reports
- Haematochezia (passage of stools containing blood): 234 reports
- Haematocrit decreased: 132 reports
- Haematoma (collection of blood outside the blood vessels): 149 reports
- Haematuria (presence of blood in urine): 157 reports
- Haemoglobin decreased: 666 reports
- Haemorrhage (bleeding): 347 reports
- Haemorrhagic anaemia (anaemia due to excessive bleeding): 116 reports
- Haemorrhoids (a swollen vein or group of veins in the region of the anus): 126 reports
- Hair color changes: 186 reports
- Hair loss: 998 reports
- Hallucinations (sensations that appear real but are created by your mind): 285 reports
- Headache (pain in head): 2,416 reports
- Head injury: 927 reports
- Heart attack: 574 reports
- Heart palpitations (feelings or sensations that your heart is pounding or racing): 422 reports
- Heart rate decreased: 210 reports
- Heart rate increased: 519 reports
- Heart rate irregular: 218 reports
- Hepatic enzyme increased: 183 reports
- Hernia (hernia happens when part of an internal organ or tissue bulges through a weak area of muscle): 179 reports
- Herpes zoster: 288 reports
- Hiatal hernia (hernia resulting from the protrusion of part of the stomach through the diaphragm): 147 reports
- High blood cholesterol: 282 reports
- High blood pressure: 1,622 reports
- Hip fracture: 195 reports
- Hoarseness or changing voice: 297 reports
- Hospitalisation: 471 reports
- Hot flush (sudden feelings of heat): 282 reports
- Hyperhidrosis (abnormally increased sweating): 435 reports
- Hyperkalemia (damage to or disease of the kidney): 277 reports
- Hypersensitivity: 383 reports
- Hypoacusis (loss of hearing): 177 reports
- Hypoaesthesia (reduced sense of touch or sensation): 691 reports
- Hypokalemia (low potassium): 417 reports
- Hyponatremia (abnormally low level of sodium in the blood; associated with dehydration): 135 reports
- Hypophagia (reduced food intake): 130 reports
- Hypotension (abnormally low blood pressure): 1,290 reports
- Impaired healing: 173 reports
- Increased tendency to bruise (increased tendency to injure the underlying soft tissue or bone): 131 reports
- Indigestion: 415 reports
- Infection: 493 reports
- Inflammation: 132 reports
- Influenza like illness: 239 reports
- Infusion related reaction: 134 reports
- Injection site bruising: 219 reports
- Injection site erythema (redness at injection site): 221 reports
- Injection site haemorrhage (bleeding from injection site): 164 reports
- Injection site pain: 600 reports
- Injection site pruritus (severe itching at injection site): 129 reports
- Injury: 153 reports
- Insomnia (sleeplessness): 1,155 reports
- International normalised ratio increased: 134 reports
- Intervertebral disc protrusion (spinal disc protrusion): 171 reports
- Intestinal obstruction: 264 reports
- Irritability: 128 reports
- Itching: 1,111 reports
- Joint injury: 145 reports
- Joint pain: 1,629 reports
- Joint swelling: 567 reports
- Kidney infection: 110 reports
- Kidney stones: 262 reports
- Limb discomfort (discomfort in leg): 182 reports
- Limb injury: 182 reports
- Liver disorder (liver diseases): 109 reports
- Localised infection (infection at the single location): 181 reports
- Local swelling (swelling at the site of some application of substance or injury): 178 reports
- Loss of consciousness: 486 reports
- Lung disorder (lung disease): 224 reports
- Lung infection: 119 reports
- Lymph follicular hypertrophy (an increase in the size of the lymph node follicles): 124 reports
- Malaise (a feeling of general discomfort or uneasiness): 1,866 reports
- Malignant neoplasm progression (cancer tumour came back): 228 reports
- Memory loss: 976 reports
- Mental status changes (general changes in brain function, such as confusion, amnesia (memory loss), loss of alertness, loss of orientation): 131 reports
- Migraine (headache): 282 reports
- Mobility decreased (ability to move is reduced): 279 reports
- Mood swings (an extreme or rapid change in mood): 107 reports
- Movement disorder (neurological syndromes where they may be excess of movement or a paucity of movement that is not connected to weakness): 113 reports
- Multiple myeloma (cancer of the plasma cells): 262 reports
- Multiple sclerosis relapse (reoccurrence of a nervous system disease that affects your brain and spinal cord. it damages the myelin sheath): 220 reports
- Muscle aches (muscle pain): 668 reports
- Muscle spasms (muscle contraction): 1,162 reports
- Musculoskeletal pain (pain affects the bones, muscles, ligaments, tendons, and nerves): 326 reports
- Musculoskeletal stiffness (stiffness of the body's muscles, joints, tendons, ligaments and nerves): 318 reports
- Nasal congestion (blockage of the nasal passages usually due to membranes lining the nose becoming swollen from inflamed blood vessels): 375 reports
- Nasopharyngitis (inflammation of the nasopharynx): 906 reports
- Nausea (feeling of having an urge to vomit): 2,941 reports
- Nausea and vomiting: 1,667 reports
- Neck pain: 305 reports
- Neoplasm malignant (cancer tumour): 122 reports
- Nervousness: 206 reports
- Neuralgia (pain in one or more nerves): 110 reports
- Neuropathy peripheral (surface nerve damage): 595 reports
- Night sweats (sweating in night): 169 reports
- Nosebleed (bleeding from nose): 484 reports
- Oedema (fluid collection in tissue): 461 reports
- Oedema peripheral (superficial swelling): 960 reports
- Oral pain: 181 reports
- Oropharyngeal pain: 410 reports
- Osteoarthritis (a joint disease caused by cartilage loss in a joint): 337 reports
- Osteoporosis (bones weak and more likely to break): 243 reports
- Otitis (ear infection): 144 reports
- Overdose: 202 reports
- Oxygen saturation decreased: 377 reports
- Pain: 2,233 reports
- Pain in extremity: 1,593 reports
- Pain in jaw: 271 reports
- Pancreatitis (inflammation of pancreas): 138 reports
- Pancytopenia (medical condition in which there is a reduction in the number of red and white blood cells, as well as platelets): 169 reports
- Panic disorder: 145 reports
- Paraesthesia (sensation of tingling, tickling, prickling, pricking, or burning of a person's skin with no apparent long-term physical effect): 605 reports
- Pericardial effusion (fluid around the heart): 164 reports
- Peripheral swelling: 1,354 reports
- Photophobia (extreme sensitivity to light): 109 reports
- Pleural effusion (water on the lungs): 328 reports
- Pneumonia: 2,139 reports
- Pollakiuria (abnormally frequent passage of relatively small quantities or urine): 215 reports
- Poor quality sleep: 114 reports
- Presyncope: 112 reports
- Primary pulmonary hypertension (primary high blood pressure that affects the arteries in the lungs and the right side of your heart): 225 reports
- Productive cough: 252 reports
- Pruritus generalised (generalized itching): 102 reports
- Psoriasis (immune-mediated disease that affects the skin): 281 reports
- Psoriatic arthropathy (inflammation of the skin and joints with kin condition which typically causes patches (plaques) of red, scaly skin to develop): 109 reports
- Psychological trauma: 149 reports
- Pulmonary embolism (blockage of the main artery of the lung): 369 reports
- Pulmonary hypertension (increase in blood pressure in the lung artery): 216 reports
- Pulmonary oedema (fluid accumulation in the lungs): 316 reports
- Rashes (redness): 1,716 reports
- Rash macular (small, flat red spots): 128 reports
- Rash pruritic (redness with itching): 182 reports
- Rectal haemorrhage (bleeding from anus): 274 reports
- Red blood cell count decreased: 217 reports
- Renal disorder (kidney disease): 252 reports
- Renal impairment (severely reduced kidney function): 331 reports
- Renal injury (kidney injury): 121 reports
- Respiratory acidosis (respiratory failure or ventilatory failure, causes the ph of blood and other bodily fluids to decrease): 296 reports
- Respiratory disorder (respiratory disease): 130 reports
- Respiratory tract infection: 123 reports
- Restless leg syndrome (a powerful urge to move your legs): 113 reports
- Rheumatoid arthritis (a chronic progressive disease causing inflammation in the joints): 317 reports
- Rib fracture: 140 reports
- Right ventricular failure (right half of the heart fails to work): 104 reports
- Road traffic accident: 164 reports
- Seizures (abnormal excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain): 328 reports
- Sepsis (a severe blood infection that can lead to organ failure and death): 565 reports
- Septic shock (shock due to blood infection): 148 reports
- Sinus disorder (disease of sinus): 124 reports
- Sinusitis (inflammation of sinus): 723 reports
- Skin blushing/flushing (a sudden reddening of the face, neck): 388 reports
- Skin discoloration: 234 reports
- Skin disorder (skin disease): 146 reports
- Skin exfoliation (removal of the oldest dead skin cells): 192 reports
- Skin ulcer: 141 reports
- Sleep apnea syndrome: 138 reports
- Sleep disorder: 275 reports
- Speech disorder: 155 reports
- Speech impairment (adult) (inability to speak (adult)): 209 reports
- Spinal fracture (fracture in one of vertebrae): 126 reports
- Splenomegaly (enlargement of spleen): 105 reports
- Staphylococcal infection (an infection with staphylococcus bacteria): 195 reports
- Stomatitis (inflammation of mucous membrane of mouth): 290 reports
- Stress and anxiety: 1,125 reports
- Stroke (sudden death of a portion of the brain cells due to a lack of oxygen): 591 reports
- Suicidal ideation: 129 reports
- Surgery: 139 reports
- Swallowing difficulty: 399 reports
- Swelling: 492 reports
- Swelling face: 201 reports
- Taste - impaired: 296 reports
- The flu (the flu is caused by an influenza virus): 559 reports
- Therapeutic response decreased (less preventive response): 115 reports
- Therapeutic response unexpected: 191 reports
- Throat irritation: 159 reports
- Thrombocytopenia (decrease of platelets in blood): 802 reports
- Thrombosis (formation of a blood clot inside a blood vessel): 539 reports
- Thyroid diseases: 119 reports
- Tinnitus (a ringing in the ears): 142 reports
- Tooth abscess (pus formation in tooth): 113 reports
- Tooth disorder (tooth disease): 129 reports
- Transient ischaemic attack (a transient episode of neurologic dysfunction caused by ischemia (loss of blood flow)): 158 reports
- Tremor (trembling or shaking movements in one or more parts of your body): 603 reports
- Tumor: 105 reports
- Type 2 diabetes: 102 reports
- Upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage (upper gastrointestinal bleeding): 153 reports
- Upper limb fracture: 126 reports
- Upper respiratory tract infection: 283 reports
- Urinary incontinence (inability to control the flow of urine and involuntary urination): 156 reports
- Urinary tract infection: 1,384 reports
- Urination - painful: 174 reports
- Urticaria (rash of round, red welts on the skin that itch intensely): 295 reports
- Vaginal bleeding: 105 reports
- Viral infection: 167 reports
- Vision blurred: 450 reports
- Visual impairment: 484 reports
- Weakness: 2,703 reports
- Weight decreased: 1,737 reports
- Weight fluctuation: 122 reports
- Weight increased: 1,243 reports
- Wheezing (a high-pitched whistling sound made while you breath): 203 reports
- White blood cell count decreased: 557 reports
- White blood cell count increased: 220 reports
- Withdrawal syndrome (a discontinuation syndrome is a set of symptoms occurred due to discontinuation of substance): 102 reports
- Wound: 126 reports
How the study uses the data?
The study is based on diltiazem hydrochloride and potassium (the active ingredients of Dilacor xr and Potassium, respectively). Other drugs that have the same active ingredients (e.g. generic drugs or brand names) are also considered. Dosage of drugs is not considered in the study.
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