Results of the ACCORD study were reported at the American College of Cardiology 2010 Scientific Sessions and in the online version of the New England Journal of Medicine this week.

The report concluded that there is no benefit in aggressively treating high blood pressure in diabetics to numbers below 120 mm Hg diastolic. There was no difference in fatal and non fatal cardiovascular events in this group of patients and a group who had their diastolic blood pressure treated to less than 140 mm Hg.

Blood pressure in diabetics definitely needs to be successfully treated but there is no advantage to being over treated.  bjmdjd

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