Blood Pressure Goals for Diabetic Patients Over 60 Years of Age: Is It Time They Earned Some Slack?Ashley Marshall, PharmD PGY-1 Pharmacy Resident South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas Division of Pharmacotherapy, The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy ...
unlike our previous thoughts BP targets in diabetic patients should be higher than in non-diabetics. DM has a negative influence on arteriolar function and blood flow autoregulation that shifts the pressure/flow relationship. Therefore diabetic patients are more vulnerable to compromised...
Blood Pressure Goals for Diabetic Patients Over 60 Years of Age: Is It Time They Earned Some Slack?Ashley Marshall, PharmD PGY-1 Pharmacy Resident South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas Division of Pharmacotherapy, The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy Pharmac...
The importance of tight blood pressure control in diabetic hypertensive patientsThere is a worldwide pandemic of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) that is projected to further increase in the next several decades, due in part to aging and increasing obesity. DM and hypertension are chronic conditions...
Diabetic complications are associated with high blood pressure for type-2 diabetes patientsBACKGROUND Type-2 diabetes patients have above average rates of cardiovascular, cerebrovascular and renal disease which may be associated with higher blood pressure. Past research has measured blood pressure at one...
blood pressure control in patients with type 2 diabetes with existing nephropathy - Analysis of a nephrologic - diabetic group of patients Jeffers, BW, Gifford, N (2000) Effect of blood pressure control on diabetic microvascular complications in patients with hypertension and type 2 diabetes. ......
and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC 7) and the 2007 Guidelines for the Management of Arterial Hypertension of the European Society of Hypertension and the European Society of Cardiology (ESH/ESC 2007), recommend o130/80 mm Hg as a target level of BP control in diabetic patients.12–14...
"We know that lowering blood pressure is critical for the treatment of diabetes, but it is still not clear how much to reduce it," Ning said, noting that internationally, there is no standard anti-hypertension target. Statistics show that China has 114 million adult diabetic patients, with mo...
a7, look at the blood pressure of patients with diabetic nephropathy, oedema, urine volume, urine test results and changes of renal function: If you have less urine, oedema, hypertension, should promptly report the competent doctors to give appropriate treatment.[translate]...
IntroductionTight blood pressure (BP) control is the single most important intervention to prevent cardiovascular mortality among patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). However, little is known about how many patients have specific target BP levels or the factors associated with patients' knowledge of ...