Diabetes and Hypertension: A Position Statement by the American Diabetes Association

  • de Boer, Ian H.
  • Bangalore, Sripal
  • Benetos, Athanase
  • Davis, Andrew M.
  • Michos, Erin D.
  • Muntner, Paul
  • Rossing, Peter
  • Zoungas, Sophia
  • Bakris, George

  • 1University of Washington, Seattle, WA

    2New York University, New York, NY

    3Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France

    4The University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL

    5The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

    6School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

    7Steno Diabetes Center Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    8School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Corresponding author: George Bakris, e-mail; [email protected].

This position statement was reviewed and approved by the American Diabetes Association Professional Practice Committee in June 2017 and ratified by the American Diabetes Association Board of Directors in July 2017.

For further information on the ADA evidence grading system and the levels of evidence, please see Table 1 in the American Diabetes Association’s Introduction section of the Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes—2017. Diabetes Care 2017;40(Suppl. 1):S2, https://doi.org/10.2337/dc17-S001.

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Diabetes Care 40(9):p 1273-1284, September 2017. | DOI: 10.2337/dci17-0026
Copyright © 2017 by the American Diabetes Association, Inc.