Heart Disease Risk Factor

Stricter blood pressure guidelines urged for diabetic patients

Published in Diabetes Week, June 30th, 2003

by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Diabetic patients need more stringent hypertension treatment guidelines than do nondiabetics because of the high mortality from diabetes-related cardiovascular disease.

"Guidelines for medical treatment are becoming increasingly popular and many guidelines have been produced by various societies in diabetes, hypertension, and renal disease as well as general medicine," said Carl Erik Mogensen at the University of Aarhus in Denmark.

"Increased blood glucose causes vascular damage and abnormal vascular structure all over the body, an abnormal structure that is especially vulnerable to high blood...

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Source: Diabetes Week (2003-06-30)

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