Results from recent studies have led the ADA to recommend ARBs as the treatment of choice for patients with type 2 diabetes and diabetic nephropathy, and ARBs or ACEIs for patients with microalbuminuria.

Combined treatment with an angiotensin-active drug, a diuretic, and a calcium channel blocker is a good blood pressure-lowering regimen for most patients with diabetes.

Over 14% of U.S. adults are affected with diabetes and impaired fasting glucose, but the prevalence however, did not increase substantially during the 1990s. That comes from the National Health and Nutrition Examination surveys (NHANES).

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Fish oil supplements may help reduce some fatty substances in the blood of people with diabetes, but not others, researchers report.

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Elderly men with diabetes have better control of blood pressure, lipid levels, and hypoglycemia than older female diabetics, despite nearly similar drug treatment.

Elderly men with diabetes have better control of blood pressure, lipid levels, and hypoglycemia than older female diabetics, despite nearly similar drug treatment.

Diabetic patients undergoing angioplasty can reduce their risk of having a major adverse cardiac event by half if they take the lipid-lowering drug fluvastatin.