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Title
Cardiovascular outcomes with antihypertensive therapy in type 2 diabetes: an analysis of intervention trials.
Publication Date
2015-01-22
Author(s)
Jerums, George
Panagiotopoulos, Sianna
Ekinci, Elif I
MacIsaac, Richard J
Type of document
Journal Article
OrcId
0000-0002-0845-0001
DOI
10.1038/jhh.2014.117
Abstract
In studies of antihypertensive therapy, relative cardiovascular (CV) risk reduction is largely independent of attained systolic blood pressure (SBP). How this translates to absolute risk reduction (ARR) in diabetes is not clear. We have compared 5-year CV outcomes in 10 studies of intensive versus moderate or active versus placebo therapy in subjects with type 2 diabetes and attained SBP
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Citation
Journal of Human Hypertension 2015; 29(8): 473-7
Jornal Title
Journal of human hypertension

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