“Hypertension is serious, complicated and there is a lot to know. I posted elsewhere on this site a video of how to take your blood pressure correctly. I recommend reviewing that. This article associates type 2 diabetes with your control of hypertension. This finding is an important finding and needs wider dissemination than I have seen in my reading.” Bill Chesnut, MD
Adults with who take hypertension medications at bedtime may be less likely to develop Type 2 diabetes
The Los Angeles Times (9/24, Healy) “Science Now” reports that research published in Diabetologia suggests that “adults with high blood pressure who take all of their hypertension medications before they go to bed, rather than in the morning, are less likely to develop Type 2 diabetes.” Another study, “also published in Diabetologia” yesterday “and conducted by the same…researchers, found that subjects whose blood pressure did not dip, and those whose readings dipped more briefly or shallowly, were more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes than those whose sleep-time blood pressure saw a deep and sustained drop from daytime levels.”
AMA Wire 9.26.15