Depression is a mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest. Also called major depressive disorder or clinical depression, it affects how you feel, think and behave and can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems. You may have trouble doing normal day-to-day activities, and sometimes you may feel as if life isn't worth living.
Hypertension can be diagnosed by performing careful and repeated measures of the blood pressure. Blood pressure categories include normal blood pressure, defined as a systolic pressure less than 120, and a diastolic pressure less than 80. Elevated blood pressure is defined as a systolic pressure 120 to 129, and a diastolic pressure less than 80.
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A Beginners Guide is a guide for beginners, and it could also be called a a Beginners' Guide, if you like apostrophes. Call it a Beginner's Guide and it's a guide for one beginner: if there were several beginners then they would each need one of such a guide. Now this class is for beginners.
Or for lots of beginners - hence a beginners' class? Or is "beginners" an attribute of the class - hence a beginners class? The question was discussed at length in an other thread about a woman's college, and baby oil came into it as well. As the themes are so close, I'll move this thread to the end of the previous one, and change its name.