Volume 1, Number 2, December 2000

Improving the prognosis of diabetic patients: evaluating the role of intensive versus moderate blood pressure control with selective angiotensin II receptor blocker (ARB) therapy
Martin P Bedigian

There are multiple factors implicated in the pathogenesis of macrovascular and microvascular complications of type 2 DM (Table 4). Hypertension, one of the major risk factors, is also one of the simplest to modify. ABCD and ABCD-2V will each provide five years of carefully gathered information on the effects of intensive vs. moderate BP control on the development and progression of nephropathy, retinopathy, neuropathy and cardiovascular disease in hypertensive and normotensive patients with type 2 DM. Together, these studies will add insight into the management of elevated blood pressure in patients with type 2 DM.

JRAAS 2000;1:25-28.

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