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  • noun Plural form of hypertensive.

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Examples

  • Taking potassium supplements is as dangerous as salt to hypertensives.

    Avandia risk concealed? 2010

  • Diabetics need to control their blood sugars, hypertensives need to control their blood pressure, people with high cholesterol need to control their cholesterol.

    After the Diagnosis MD Julian Seifter 2010

  • JOHN ROTHER, AARP: The most frequently consumed drugs, the ones that most people end up taking and they're for hypertensives, they're cholesterol drugs, they're drugs that are pretty well recognized, and those are the ones that led the way in terms of price increases.

    CNN Transcript Nov 18, 2009 2009

  • In a group of unaccompanied men, it may not be possible to discern which ones are fathers and which are not, just as simply measuring blood pressure cannot differentiate between non-hypertensives and patients with controlled hypertension.

    Archive 2009-04-01 1 Dinosaur 2009

  • And I imagine that hypertensives have the same issues with the injected salt.

    Mouse Print»Blog Archive » Where’s the Beef Pork? 2008

  • In our experience, when people make comprehensive lifestyle changes, they usually can reduce or discontinue medications such as cholesterol-lowering drugs, anti-hypertensives, beta-blockers, ACE inhibitors, nitrates, insulin, and so on.

    Dr. Dean Ornish: Globalization of Illness/Globalization of Health 2008

  • While bad for hypertensives, this makes licorice root particularly well suited for people with low energy and low blood pressure.

    The Source Woodson Merrell 2008

  • While bad for hypertensives, this makes licorice root particularly well suited for people with low energy and low blood pressure.

    The Source Woodson Merrell 2008

  • Also, if there is any recipe you would like me to try and make low cal / healthier or suited to a particular diet as as for diabetics, hypertensives or low-cholesterol - please write in and I shall try my best to help you out.

    New!! Request-a-recipe 2007

  • Also, if there is any recipe you would like me to try and make low cal / healthier or suited to a particular diet as as for diabetics, hypertensives or low-cholesterol - please write in and I shall try my best to help you out.

    Archive 2007-08-01 2007

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