Combo blood pressure pill cuts deaths in diabetics
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Giving people with type 2 diabetes a combination pill to lower blood pressure cuts their risk of heart attack or death, regardless of what their blood pressure was before treatment, scientists said on Sunday.
Those taking the combined angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor and diuretic medicine were 18 percent less likely to die from cardiovascular disease than patients on placebo, according to a four-year study involving 11,000 patients.
Tutu slams S. Africa’s efforts to fight HIV/AIDS
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu berated South Africa’s government on Friday over delays in introducing an HIV/AIDS drug treatment plan and said its leaders’ unorthodox views had led to unnecessary deaths.
Recalling fallen anti-apartheid heroes, the Nobel peace laureate said they would be shocked by the devastation caused by the HIV/AIDS pandemic, which he said was killing 900 people every day in the country.
Intensive diabetes therapy may lower heart rate
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Intensive control of blood sugar (glucose) in patients with type 1 diabetes is associated with a lower resting heart rate, according to a report in Diabetes Care.
“This effect may partially explain why the intensive insulin treatment has been shown to reduce the risk of heart disease in those with type 1 diabetes,” Dr. Andrew D. Paterson of the University of Toronto, Canada told Reuters Health.
