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American Society of Hypertension Updates Guidelines to Address 7-Fold Mortality Increase in Hypertensive Patients with Diabetes
Updated guidance published in the current issue of the American Society of Hypertension?s (ASH) Journal of Clinical Hypertension addresses the urgent need for physicians to take a more integrated, individualized approach to treating hypertension (high blood pressure) in patients with diabetes by treating the intricacies of each patient profile, rather than focusing on the disease in isolation. Early initiation of medications that block the renin angiotension system (ACE inhibitors or ARBs) coupled with either thiazide-like diuretics or calcium antagonists are needed to maintain BP
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