A patient is started on a diuretic for antihypertensive therapy. The nurse expects that a drug in which class is likely to be used initially?

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The Eighth Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC-8) guidelines reaffirmed the role of thiazide diuretics as among the first-line drugs in the treatment hypertension. The other drug classes are not considered first-line treatments.

A Patient Is Started on a Diuretic for Antihypertensive Therapy