An 82-year-old male presents to your office because his blood pressure has been "high" when taken by a friend on several occasions. his blood pressure in your office is 173/94 mm hg, which is similar to the levels his friend recorded. the history and physical examination are otherwise unremarkable, and a cbc, metabolic panel, and urinalysis are normal. which one of the following is most consistent with current evidence? (check one)a. this patient's mortality will not be affected by treatment of his hypertensionb. treating this patient with an arb for hypertension would be ineffective and dangerousc. treatment with a thiazide diuretic will lower this patient's risk of deathd. in this age group, treatment of hypertension in males does not reduce stroke and heart failure as it does in females

What angle should your knees not bend past when squatting? a. 30 degrees b. 45 degrees c. 90 degrees d. 120 degrees

Lyme disease is caused by a bacterium transmitted to people by deer ticks. deer ticks are almost never born infected with the bacterium, but they can pick it up from feeding on an infected host in any of the tick's three successive stage of development: larva, nymph, adult. once infected, a tick remains infected through any subsequent developmental stages, but since a tick feeds on only one host in each stage, it follows that . people can be infected only by being bitten by a tick that is either in larval stage or in the nymph stage b. people cannot be infected by a tick that picked up the lyme disease bacterium in the adult stage c. it is not possible for a person to be infected by a tick that is in the nymph stage or by a tick that was infected with the bacterium while in the nymph stage d. people infected with the lyme disease bacterium cannot transmit bacterium to adult deer ticks e. only deer ticks that are adults can transmit the lyme disease bacterium to people

What are three major influences on whether someone starts to use tobacco