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Treatment of Hypertension in Adults With Diabetes

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The treatment of individuals with diabetes has evolved greatly over the years, with the greatest change occurring in only the past few years. One of the most obvious changes has been movement away from the "glucocentric" management of diabetic patients. For years, health care providers who cared for diabetic patients concerned themselves almost entirely with the blood glucose level. Management consisted of doing what was necessary to keep the blood glucose level from being too high in order to prevent long-term diabetic complications or, in some circumstances, from being too low to prevent other disasters. Now providers who care for diabetic individuals are advised to deal with, in addition to blood glucose levels, other comorbidities, such has hypertension, dyslipidemia, and coronary artery disease (CAD), which occur so frequently in our patients.

The treatment of hypertension in adults with diabetes is one such issue. Hypertension occurs in 25–75% of individuals with diabetes . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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