Target blood pressure attainment in diabetic hypertensive patients: need for more diuretics?
Despite the common use of ACE-I/ ARB as recommended per JNC 7th report, the majority of the patients had uncontrolled BP. Diuretics is an important drug class in attaining target BP. Use of diuretics in combination with ACE-I as well as drug compliance needs to be emphasized and encouraged.
A risk model consisting of six variables usually known to the GP from the patient records may be a useful tool in the identification of elderly people living in the community at risk for recurrent falls.