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To the Editor: The report of the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (Sept. 30 issue)¹ provided much information about the importance of achieving strict control of blood glucose levels through intensive treatment in diabetic patients. Patients with hypertension were excluded, and base-line blood pressures were similar in the patients in the conventional-therapy and the intensive-therapy groups. We wonder whether changes in blood pressure during the study affected the outcomes, given the importance of blood pressure in the development and progression of diabetic retinopathy² and nephropathy³ and the controversy over the effects of insulin on blood pressure⁴. What changes in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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