Conditions: Hypertension Diabetes
Keywords: diabetes hypertension aortic impedance
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 70
Healthy volunteers: yes

Brief summary:
The study is being done to see if a drug shown to lower the risk of heart failure is also effective in reducing the stiffness of the arteries.

Detailed description:
To determine the effect of nebivolol versus metoprolol in Type 2 hypertensive diabetic patients on systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure.

Arms:
arm 1: Starting at dose of 5 mg daily titrated up to max of 40 mg until target BP of 130/80 is reached arm 2: Starting at 50 mg daily dose is titrated to max 200 mg until target BP of 130/80 is reached

Interventions: intervention 1: nebivolol intervention 2: Metoprolol
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Starting at dose of 5 mg daily titrated up to max of 40 mg until target BP of 130/80 is reached intervention 2: Starting at 50 mg daily dose is titrated to max 200 mg until target BP of 130/80 is reached

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