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- Type 1
Blood pressure drugs could prevent millions of people worldwide from developing type 2 diabetes, a large study suggests.
Lowering high blood pressure is an effective way to slash the risk of the disease in the future, according to the research published in the Lancet.
Doctors already prescribe cheap blood pressure drugs to reduce the chances of a life-threatening heart attack or stroke. However, until now, the question of whether these drugs could also help fend off the threat of type 2 diabetes had been unanswered.
Now researchers have found the protective effects of the drugs are much wider than previously thought. The study shows they may directly reduce someone’s risk of type 2 diabetes, a condition that an estimated 13.6 million people in the UK are at high risk of developing.
In the largest study of its kind, researchers at the universities of Oxford and Bristol followed more than 145,000 people from 19 global randomised clinical trials for an average of about five years.
www.theguardian.com
Lowering high blood pressure is an effective way to slash the risk of the disease in the future, according to the research published in the Lancet.
Doctors already prescribe cheap blood pressure drugs to reduce the chances of a life-threatening heart attack or stroke. However, until now, the question of whether these drugs could also help fend off the threat of type 2 diabetes had been unanswered.
Now researchers have found the protective effects of the drugs are much wider than previously thought. The study shows they may directly reduce someone’s risk of type 2 diabetes, a condition that an estimated 13.6 million people in the UK are at high risk of developing.
In the largest study of its kind, researchers at the universities of Oxford and Bristol followed more than 145,000 people from 19 global randomised clinical trials for an average of about five years.
Blood pressure drugs could prevent type 2 diabetes, study finds
Lowering high blood pressure may slash the risk of the disease in millions of people in future
www.theguardian.com