In reviewing prehospital care reports, you note that over 75 percent of the patients from a nursing home suffer from hypertension. As a knowledgeable EMT, you would recognize that:
A) hypertension is common among the elderly.
B) the patients are not taking blood pressure medications.
C) an infectious disease is spreading through the nursing home.
D) all of the patients must have the same physician.
A
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