Diabetes Self-Management

DIABETES [DEFINITIONS]

ACE INHIBITORS

A class of medicine usually used to treat high blood pressure. Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors also appear to protect people with diabetes from diabetic nephropathy (kidney disease).

People with diabetes are especially prone to hypertension (defined as a blood pressure level of 140/90 mm Hg or greater). Hypertension increases the risk not only of heart disease and stroke but

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