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• n  any of a group of drugs commonly used as diuretics in the treatment of hypertension; they block the reabsorption of sodium in the kidneys

• The thiazide diuretic and even the laxative reduce the body's store of potassium, and this definitely makes the heart more irritable.
• The goal was to compare some of the newer antihypertension treatments--like ACE inhibitors and calcium channel blockers--with an older group of drugs called thiazide diuretics.
• The goal was to compare some of the newer antihypertension treatments like ACE inhibitors and calcium channel blockers with an older group of drugs called thiazide .

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• Jerry Avorn in Philadelphia Inquirer
  In hypertension, for example, "a lot of people are on medications that don't do any better a job than the good, old-fashioned thiazide diuretics," Avorn said.