Time for considering other blood pressure target values in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes?
Channel: International Journal of Clinical Practice
Date: 2012-02-14

This video accompanies a paper in the February issue of the International Journal of Clinical Practice, entitled, "Time for considering other blood pressure target values in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes?"

Although blood pressure control has undoubtedly proven its
beneﬁts in reducing the high cardiovascular risk in patients
with type 2 diabetes mellitus, it still remains
unclear whether intensive antihypertensive treatment in old
age is beneﬁcial. Many of the current guidelines
recommend a systolic blood pressure 140 mmHg
or lower, unless patients are at high risk for possible adverse
events such as postural hypotension. This perspective
aims to get a discussion started on the appropriate target
SBP value for patients with T2DM aged older than 75 years.
We would like to propose the less stringent value of
160 mmHg in this speciﬁc population.

Read the paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1742-1241.2011.02841.x/pdf