Primary Care Pharmacy June 2000 Vol 1 No 3 p88

Journal Club

Diabetes

Gress TW, Nieto FJ, Shahar E, Wofford MR, Brancati FL for the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. Hypertension and Antihypertensive Therapy as Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. New Engl J Med 2000;342:905-12.

A study of 12,550 non-diabetic adults treated for hypertension which revealed that those taking beta blockers had a 28 per cent greater risk of subsequently becoming diabetic compared to subjects treated with thiazides, ACE inhibitors or calcium channel blockers.

What's in the medical press? - The rapidly changing situation in primary care means that it is often difficult to keep up to date with what is happening politically and clinically. This section of Primary Care Pharmacy will try to pick out a few articles that may be useful in day-to-day practice or have importance for the primary care role.