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Article: Systolic target of 135 mm Hg cuts diabetes mortality: deaths reduced by 14%, vs. control group.(News)
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- Internal Medicine News
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- September 15, 2007
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VIENNA -- Evidence is catching up with the blood pressure targets for patients with diabetes.
In 2003, the most recent update of the U.S. hypertension treatment guidelines, JNC 7, set the goal pressure for patients with diabetes at 130/80 mm Hg. But no major trial results have ever proved that a target this low helps patients. Results from the Action in Diabetes and Vascular Disease: Preterax and Diamicron-MR Controlled Evaluation (ADVANCE) trial took a step toward supplying the proof in a study of more than 11,000 patients with diabetes.
Treatment with an antihypertensive regimen that combined the ACE inhibitor perindopril and the diuretic indapamide ...