Background Blood pressure lowering is an established strategy for preventing microvascular
and macrovascular complications of diabetes, but its role in the prevention of diabetes itself …

Background Controversy exists as to whether the threshold for blood pressure-lowering
treatment should differ between people with and without type 2 diabetes. We aimed to …

Importance Lowering blood pressure (BP) is widely used to reduce vascular risk in
individuals with diabetes. Objective To determine the associations between BP–lowering …

Objective To assess the effect of antihypertensive treatment on mortality and cardiovascular
morbidity in people with diabetes mellitus, at different blood pressure levels. Design …

OBJECTIVE—To systematically review the available evidence examining the effects of the
major antihypertensive drug classes on the incidence of type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH …

More than three decades ago Harry Keen pin-pointed two “bad companions” to diabetes:
high blood glucose concentrations and high blood pressure, both associated with …

Background Patients with type-2 diabetes have a high prevalence of hypertension and show
an elevated incidence of cardiovascular events and nephropathy. Objectives Recent …

Background The benefits of blood pressure lowering treatment for prevention of
cardiovascular disease are well established. However, the extent to which these effects …

Objective To summarize the evidence for the need to improve pharmacologic management
of hypertension in people with type 2 diabetes and to provide expert advice on how blood …

Background The effects of pharmacological blood pressure lowering at normal or high-
normal blood pressure ranges in people with or without pre-existing cardiovascular disease …