Diabetes Risk May Increased By Blood Pressure Pills
According to new findings (by Dr Eric Taylor, of Harvard Medical School, Boston, and colleagues), diuretics and beta-blockers, used to treat hypertension, are associated with an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
The risk of developing diabetes in subjects taking thiazide-type diuretics compared with those not taking a thiazide was increased by 20 percent in older women, 45 percent in younger women, and 36 percent in men, after taking account of age, weight, physical activity, and other risk factors.
Compared to patients not taking a beta-blocker, older women taking beta-blockers had a 32 percent higher risk of diabetes, while for men the risk was 20 percent higher.
The use of other common types of blood pressure lowering drugs N calcium channel blockers and ACE inhibitors N was not associated with the development of type 2 diabetes, according to the report.
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