Lower blood pressure for diabetics doesn’t improve their health
March 16th, 2010
A major study shows that lower blood pressure for diabetics (type 2) does not reduce their risk of death from heart attack, although there is some evidence that it reduced the risk of stroke. The study is useful because it helps to show which treatments are more useful and which are a waste of resources.
However, there seems to be a major weakness in this study. Blood pressure in the participants was controlled with a combination of blood pressure medications. All drugs have side effects and some blood pressure drugs such as beta-blockers are known to actually increase the risk of heart failure. The results of the study may have been significantly different if the sujects had used lifestyle or other natural methods to reduce their blood pressure.
Maybe this study just demonstrates the risks of blood pressure drugs, especially for diabetics.
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