Despite the availability of many newer antihypertensive agents, hypertensive patients
remain at higher risk of premature death than the general population. This persistence of …

PURPOSE: To summarize current knowledge of interventions that should improve the care
of patients with type II diabetes mellitus. Interventions lie within the realms of prevention …

Background: Although many studies have examined the effects of antihypertensive agents
on proteinuria and glomerular filtration rate in patients with kidney disease, many questions …

OBJECTIVE: Microalbuminuria can reflect the progress of microvascular complications and
may be predictive of macrovascular disease in type 2 diabetes. The effect of intensive …

OBJECTIVES--To compare the efficacy, safety, and tolerance of enalapril and nifedipine in
hypertensive patients with non-insulin dependent diabetes. DESIGN--One year double blind …

The diabetes epidemic continues to grow unabated, with a staggering toll in micro-and
macrovascular complications, disability, and death. Diabetes causes a two-to fourfold …

Microalbuminuria predicts early mortality and renal disease in non-insulin-dependent
diabetic patients. In insulin-dependent diabetic patients, angiotensin converting enzyme …

Aims The possibility that verapamil has new beneficial effects in diabetic patients in terms of
an improvement in glycometabolic control has been put forward recently in several studies …

Introduction: Glycoxidative stress is essential for linking glucose disturbances and
cardiovascular diseases. Unfortunately, contemporary antidiabetic drugs do not have an …

We undertook the present study to examine the effect of the angiotensin-converting enzyme
inhibitor enalapril, the angiotensin II antagonist losartan, and calcium antagonist verapamil …