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  • noun Plural form of thiazide.

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Examples

  • People with the highest DASH scores were the least likely to develop kidney stones, regardless of age, sex, BMI (, use of medicines called thiazides, and intake of calories, fluid, caffeine, and alcohol.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2009

  • Other agents such as alpha blockers, which include many blood pressure and heart drugs including prazosin Minipress and thiazides, may cause either retrograde ejaculation or no ejaculation.

    A Baby at Last! Mark L. Fuerst 2010

  • The ones that are cheap but claimed to be “as effective” e.g. thiazides, water pills, but which do NOT work in many people, cause their own set of side effects, worsen glucose tolerance for diabetics etc?

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Health Care Trojan Horse 2009

  • The council was responding to a complaint that a professor of cardiology had claimed in a newspaper interview that government regulations requiring the first line use of thiazides for hypertension meant that doctors might risk "killing" their patients with a "rat poison drug."

    Archive 2005-12-01 2005

  • The council was responding to a complaint that a professor of cardiology had claimed in a newspaper interview that government regulations requiring the first line use of thiazides for hypertension meant that doctors might risk "killing" their patients with a "rat poison drug."

    Medpundit 2005

  • The news story came after a change in drug regulations made by the Norwegian parliament in 2004, making low dosage thiazides the treatment of first choice for the management of hypertension.

    Medpundit 2005

  • The news story came after a change in drug regulations made by the Norwegian parliament in 2004, making low dosage thiazides the treatment of first choice for the management of hypertension.

    Archive 2005-12-01 2005

  • Taking thiazides alone was associated with a 20% risk.

    Medpundit 2004

  • Strong advocates of ALLHAT's preference for thiazides have put forth what I consider to be a strange argument that I think goes something like this; Yes, thiazides cause more diabetes but it doesn't seem to alter the outcomes.

    Archive 2006-11-01 james gaulte 2006

  • The patient with the metabolic syndrome which we think is driven by high insulin levels secondary to resistance to insulin in various tissues may also be the person with decreasing numbers of pancreatic beta cells and is already close to having elevated fasting blood glucose levels and have his glucose pushed up a bit by thiazides.

    Archive 2006-11-01 james gaulte 2006

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