Experts say thiazide diuretic blood pressure medications can alter the way your skin reacts to sunlight and increase skin cancer risk in people over age 66.
“Hydrochlorothiazide, one of the most prescribed thiazide diuretic drugs, seems to be the most “phototoxic,” said Dr. Aaron Drucker, a member of the study team as well as a dermatologist and clinical investigator in the department of dermatology at Brown University’s Alpert Medical School in Rhode Island.”














