Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: Improving Blood Pressure Management in Patients With Diabetes: SCRIP-HTN
Brief Summary: About 22% of Canadians have high blood pressure, or hypertension. However, studies have shown that only 1 out of 5 people with hypertension have their blood pressure controlled.

Diabetes is also an important risk factor for heart disease and stroke. About half of people with diabetes also have hypertension - a deadly combination. Studies have shown that only about 1 in 10 people with diabetes have their blood pressure controlled adequately - clearly something needs to be done to improve this.

Heart disease, stroke, hypertension, and diabetes are conditions that occur in the community, so we need to explore innovative solutions that will work in the community. Pharmacists are well-placed in the community to help identify people with diabetes and hypertension. This has worked very well in previous studies in patients with high cholesterol levels. Pharmacists and nurses have complementary skills which, when working as a team, may help identify and better manage hypertension in people with diabetes.

Our main objective is to test whether a community pharmacist and nurse team can improve blood pressure control in people with diabetes and hypertension.


Options:
A: Inclusion Criteria:

The following patients will be eligible for study participation:

* Patients with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes. Diabetes will be defined as those patients presently taking either oral hypoglycemic agents or insulin therapy (oral hypoglycemic agents to include all drugs in the drug classes of: alpha-glucosidase inhibitors, biguanides, meglitinides, sulfonylureas, thiazolidinediones and adjunctive therapy) taken for \>6 months to rule-out steroid-induced diabetes and gestational diabetes.

Exclusion Criteria:

Patients will be excluded from the study if they:

* Do not provide or are unable to provide written informed consent
* Refuse or are unlikely to attend follow-up visits for BP measurements
* Are institutionalized
* Are \<18 years of age
* Do not understand English
* Enrolled in other diabetes or hypertension trials

Subjects will be recruited whether or not they are receiving antihypertensive therapy.
B: Inclusion Criteria:

* All diabetic veterans with a Hb-A1c between 7.0- 9.0 % within the last 6 months will be eligible for the study

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patients without an Hb-A1c checked within the last 6 months.
* Patients who are unable to attend the group sessions, either because of lack of transportation, psychiatric instability (suicidal, psychotic), or organic brain injury that preclude them from diabetes self-care.
C: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Age 35 years and older
2. Confirmed diagnosis of diabetes based on documented evidence from oral glucose tolerance test or two venous fasting blood sugar levels or known diabetes patient on medication or insulin
3. Poor glycemic control (as evidenced by HbA1c \>=8.0%) and one or both of: dyslipidemia \[Low density Lipoprotein (LDL) \>=130 mg/dl\] or systolic hypertension \[Systolic Blood Pressure (SBP) \>=140 mmHg\], irrespective of lipid- or BP-lowering medication use, respectively
4. Receiving diabetes care in the same clinic for at least 3 months OR even earlier if in the investigator's assessment the patient is likely to follow-up regularly as required by the protocol.
5. Willingness to consent to randomization.

Exclusion Criteria:

Individuals will be excluded from participation if any of the following are present during screening:

1. Known type 1 diabetes mellitus
2. Diabetes secondary to chronic pancreatitis
3. Pregnant OR trying to become pregnant OR of child-bearing potential and not actively practicing birth control (including natural methods)
4. Evidence of pre-existing well-controlled blood glucose, blood pressure or LDL-cholesterol (as evidenced by HbA1c \< 7.0%, SBP \< 130 mmHg, LDL-cholesterol \< 100 mg/dl \[LDL-cholesterol \< 70 mg/dl with history of CVD event\]) obtained from screening within a period not exceeding 28 days (4 weeks) prior to randomization
5. Documented cardiovascular event (coronary revascularization, stroke, MI, unstable angina) in past 12 months
6. Current symptomatic Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) or New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class 3 or 4 effort intolerance
7. Documented non-diabetic kidney disease OR pre-existing end -stage renal disease (on renal replacement therapy \[dialysis or transplant\])
8. Transaminase \>3 times upper limit of normal OR active liver disease within past 2 years
9. Malignancy or life-threatening disease with death probable in 4 years
10. Any current medication (e.g. long-term steroids, protease inhibitors) that, in the opinion of the site investigator, would interfere with participant's diabetic status and follow-up
11. Any condition or circumstance that is unrelated to diabetes progression, that in the opinion of the site investigator would interfere with the participant's diabetic status and follow-up: including (but not limited to) other endocrinopathy \[adrenal, pituitary\], Tuberculosis (TB) patient on treatment, psychiatric illness or cognitive impairment, alcohol or drug abuse, history of organ transplant, Body Mass index (BMI) \>= 45 kg/m2
12. On an investigational drug in the last 3 months
13. Currently participating in a clinical trial
14. No fixed address or contact details
15. Plans to move in the next 3 years
16. A member of the participant's household is currently in the trial
17. Inability or unwillingness of individual or legal guardian /representative to give written informed consent
D: Inclusion Criteria:

* Latinos older than 21
* Diagnosed with type 2 diabetes
* Referred to the "Amigos en Salud" program at Hartford Hospital
* Residents of Hartford

Exclusion Criteria:

* Advanced renal failure
* Advanced heart disease
* Diagnosis of major psychological disorder or mental condition
* Limb amputation(s) that prevent following study's exercise recommendations
* Any other health condition that prevents individual from consuming all their meals orally

Answer: A