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BARCELONA ? Patients with treatment-resistant hypertension and diabetes face a significantly increased risk for major cardiovascular adverse events, compared with those without diabetes, a study has shown.
The combined rate of death, myocardial infarction, and stroke was 6.2% among patients with treatment-resistant hypertension (TRH) and diabetes, and 3.8% in patients with TRH but no diabetes during 2 years of follow-up of more than 8,000 patients enrolled in a German registry, Dr. Stefanie Friedrich reported at the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes.
"Patients with treatment-resistant hypertension, and in particular patients with diabetes, need to have their blood pressure reduced to less than 140/90 mm Hg, combined with other organ-protective therapies, to improve their outcomes," said Dr. Friedrich of the division of nephrology and hypertension at Alexander-Friedrich University in Erlangen-N?rnberg (Germany).
http://www.clinicalendocrinologynew...on-risk/637412bf75c5dfc511fb162f9c908347.html
The combined rate of death, myocardial infarction, and stroke was 6.2% among patients with treatment-resistant hypertension (TRH) and diabetes, and 3.8% in patients with TRH but no diabetes during 2 years of follow-up of more than 8,000 patients enrolled in a German registry, Dr. Stefanie Friedrich reported at the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes.
"Patients with treatment-resistant hypertension, and in particular patients with diabetes, need to have their blood pressure reduced to less than 140/90 mm Hg, combined with other organ-protective therapies, to improve their outcomes," said Dr. Friedrich of the division of nephrology and hypertension at Alexander-Friedrich University in Erlangen-N?rnberg (Germany).
http://www.clinicalendocrinologynew...on-risk/637412bf75c5dfc511fb162f9c908347.html