The nurse is caring for a patient who has just been diagnosed with essential hypertension. The nurse is aware that the health care provider will begin therapy with which classification of diuretics?
A) Loop diuretics
B) Carbonic anhydrous inhibitors
C) Thiazide and thiazide-like diuretics
D) potassium-sparing diuretics
C
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Thiazides are considered to be mild diuretics compared with the more potent loop diuretics. These agents are the first-line drugs used to manage essential hypertension when drug therapy is needed. Loop and potassium-sparing diuretics and carbonic anhydrous inhibitors would be used in combination with or after the thiazide diuretics are no longer effective.
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