BP Overtreatment for Diabetics May Be as Common as Undertreatment at VA

Type 2 diabetes is fat person diabetes.

The efforts by the Veterans Administration (VA) to ensure that all hypertensive diabetic patients receive appropriate blood-pressure medication has been so successful that many patients may be "overtreated," results of a new study show.

The study by Dr Eve Kerr (Department of Veterans Affairs, Ann Arbor Healthcare System, MI) and colleagues, published online May 28, 2012 in the Archives of Internal Medicine, shows that the VA has made impressive progress in reducing undertreatment of hypertension in diabetic patients at its hospitals. But it now "appears that in the VA, rates of potential overtreatment are currently approaching, and perhaps even exceeding, the rate of undertreatment and that high rates of achieving current performance measurement targets are directly associated with medication escalation that may increase risk for patients," the authors conclude.

Lose the weight.

Lose the elevated BP.

Lose the clinical diabetes.

Lose the drug risk.

Gain plenty.