Diabetes, Hypertension, and Cardiovascular Disease: An Update

To the Editor:Sowers et al are to be commended for writing a thorough review on the diabetic hypertensive patient.1 In doing so, they came to the conclusion that, “Results of the SHEP) [2] and the UKPDS) [3] trials suggest that diuretics and β-blockers as well as ACE inhibitors are also useful therapeutic agents in diabetic hypertensive patients who often require ≥2 drugs to control blood pressure adequately. [4]”) Although we agree with this statement, it should be pointed out that β-blockers seem to be far less efficacious than the other drug classes in this …