Accepted Manuscript Blood Pressure Targets in Patients with Diabetes – a New Perspective. Clive Rosendorff, MD, PhD PII:
S1933-1711(15)00098-4
DOI:
10.1016/j.jash.2015.03.003
Reference:
JASH 664
To appear in:
Journal of the American Society of Hypertension
Received Date: 25 February 2015 Revised Date:
2 March 2015
Accepted Date: 7 March 2015
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COMMENTARY
Blood Pressure Targets in Patients with Diabetes – a New Perspective.
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Clive Rosendorff, MD, PhD
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New York, New York.
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From Mount Sinai Heart Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Center for Cardiovascular Health Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, New York, and The James J. Peters VA Medical Center Bronx, New York.
The author reports that he has no financial or other relations that could lead to a conflict of interest.
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No outside sources of support for this Commentary.
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Address for Correspondence:
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Clive Rosendorff, MD, PhD Medicine (111) James J. Peters VA Medical Center 130 West Kingsbridge Road Bronx, NY 10468 Tel: (718)741-4292 Fax: (718)741-4233 e-mail:
[email protected] Keywords: Hypertension, Blood Pressure, Diabetes, Goals, Guidelines. Word Count (Text and References) 1,840
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How do we resolve the critical question of appropriate blood pressure (BP) targets for our patients with hypertension? This is a difficult issue, even without the added complications of diabetes, chronic kidney disease (CKD), or venerable age. Previously we were all fairly comfortable with the JNC7 recommendation1 of