Response to Comment on: Rogers et al. Blood Pressure Trajectories Prior to Death in Patients With Diabetes. Diabetes Care 2011;34:1534–1539

We thank van Hateren et al. for their comments (1) and the additional information from the Zwolle Outpatient Diabetes project Integrating Available Care (ZODIAC)-12 study (2). We revisited the dataset for our study (3) and found that 70.8% of the patients were receiving ACE inhibitors or angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) in 2005. This percentage was 72.7% in 2006, 72.0% in 2007, and 72.6% in 2008. Unfortunately, information regarding dosage was not available in the dataset. As can be seen in the graphs in the article (2), both systolic and diastolic blood pressure tended to decrease over time in patients who …