Aggressively Lowering Cholesterol, Blood Pressure May Reverse Atherosclerosis In Diabetics - Diabetes Symptoms and Care
April 10, 2008
Aggressively lowering cholesterol and blood pressure levels below current targets in adults with type 2 diabetes may help to prevent - and possibly reverse - hardening of the arteries, according to new research supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health. Hardening of the arteries, also known as atherosclerosis, is the number>diabetes and 284,000 die from it each year. Sixty-five percent of the deaths are related to cardiovascular causes.
