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Diabetes Care 25:2107-2108, 2002
© 2002 by the American Diabetes Association, Inc.

Letters: Observations
Letter

The Prevalence of Hypertension and Utilization of Antihypertensive Therapy in a District Diabetes Population

Varadarajan Baskar, MRCP, Desikan Kamalakannan, MRCP, Martin R. Holland, PhD and Baldev M. Singh, FRCP

From the Wolverhampton Diabetes Centre, New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton, U.K

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Hypertension and antihypertensive treatment (AHT) impact on diabetes vascular outcomes and systolic blood pressure (SBP) probably confers a greater risk than diastolic blood pressure (1,2). Recent guidelines promote low intervention thresholds and target blood pressures (<130–140/80–85 mmHg) without considering the impact on clinical service provision (3,4). Using SBP targets, we describe hypertension prevalence, AHT utilization, and efficacy in a large district diabetes population.

We studied 6,485 of 7,123 registered adults (>=18 years) who had complete SBP and AHT data. Only 4,987 (76%) . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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