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Abstract: Part IV of this series ended in the midst of my discussion of clinical conditions that are most associated with
hypokalemia. I will continue this discussion shortly. However, after writing part IV, an interesting question was posed
by a reader in response to the discussion on foods that are most likely, when consumed in excess, to induce potentially
fatal hypokalemic states. Of course, as you saw, those foods are almost always those that have a significant caffeine
content. The reader, though, quite understandably, noticed a glaring omission in this discussion – there was no mention of coffee. Therefore, I would like to return to this discussion, focusing on a case report on coffee-induced
hypokalemia.
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