title: Hypertension and diabetes.
abstract: Diabetes mellitus and hypertension are both common diseases, especially with an increasingly aged population. Hypertension accelerates the development of diabetic retinopathy, nephropathy, and peripheral vascular disease in the diabetic patient. Diabetes represents a type of premature aging and hypertension in the diabetic patient is characterized by many of the same pathophysiologic properties seen in the elderly hypertensive patient.
authors.affiliation: Division of Endocrinology, Wayne State University, School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan.
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Sowers
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Levy
authors.forename: M B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Zemel
mesh_terms: D000959:Antihypertensive Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D048909:Diabetes Complications; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000503:physiopathology; D003925:Diabetic Angiopathies / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology; D012307:Risk Factors
chemical_list: D000959:Antihypertensive Agents