q5. - bergkamp

[ArchivalUser]

Thiazide diuretics are most effective in lowering blood pressure in:

A. patients with impaired renal function

B. young African-American patients

C. young Caucasian patients


D. patients with severe long-standing hypertension

E. pheochromocytoma

[ArchivalUser]

C. young Caucasian patients

[ArchivalUser]

Thiazide diuretics work best in patients who are "volume expanded", which includes elderly patients and young African-Americans. The other conditions and patient populations are not typically "volume expanded".

[ArchivalUser]

what do u mean by volume expanded?

thanks