title: [Modern principles of therapy of hypertension in diabetic patients].
abstract: Arterial hypertension is the most frequent cardiovascular complication of diabetes mellitus. Diabetes mellitus-type-1 occurs in about 30% of patients and it is connected to development of diabetic nephropathy, while type-2 occurs in as much as 70% of cases, having fast atherosclerosis as a base in its etiopathogenesis. The therapy of arterial hypertension in diabetic patients is specific and in some ways different depending on the type of diabetes mellitus as well as other complications characteristic for diabetes. Apart from drug therapy, it includes: body weight reduction in obese patients, restriction of sodium chloride, proteins and alcohol drinking, as well as other risk factors (smoking, for example). Drug therapy means application of different groups of antihypertensive agents (selective beta-blockers, diuretics, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, calcium channel antagonists and postsynaptic alpha-1 blockers). Some of them have adverse effects on metabolism of lipids, while some have other adverse effects which must be taken into account when determining therapy. However, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and calcium channel antagonists are the most preferred today as the most effective and with least adverse effects.
authors.affiliation: Klinika za endokrinologiju, dijabetes i bolesti metabolizma, Institut za interne bolesti, Medicinski fakultet, Novi Sad.
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authors.lastname: Ivković-Lazar
mesh_terms: D048909:Diabetes Complications; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*