PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Vinall, Maria
ED  - Cooper-DeHoff, Rhonda M.
TI  - Emerging Evidence of Intensive Risk Factor Control to Prevent CVD in Diabetic Patients
DP  - 2011 Jun 01
TA  - MD Conference Express
PG  - 26--27
VI  - 11
IP  - 3
4099  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/11/3/26.short
4100  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/11/3/26.full
AB  - Diabetes and hypertension share several physiological traits, and both independently predict cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. However, until recently, the systolic blood pressure targets that are currently recommended by major guidelines diabetics (<130 mm Hg) had little supporting evidence from large-scale randomized trials.