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A patient who has been taking an antihypertensive medication for several years is recovering from a myocardial infarction. The prescriber changes the patient's medication to an ACE inhibitor.
 
  The patient asks the nurse why a new drug is necessary. What is the nurse's response?
  a. ACE inhibitors can prevent or reverse pathologic changes in the heart's structure.
  b. ACE inhibitors help lower LDL cholesterol and raise HDL cholesterol.
  c. ACE inhibitors increase venous return to the heart, improving cardiac output.
  d. ACE inhibitors regulate electrolytes that affect the cardiac rhythm.
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