Higher blood pressure predicts diabetes and enhances long‐term risk of cardiovascular disease events in individuals with impaired glucose tolerance: Twenty‐three‐year follow‐up of the Daqing diabetes prevention study

Abstract

Hypertension predicted diabetes and enhances long-term risk of CVD events in patients with IGT. An individualized strategy that targets hypertension as well as hyperglycemia is needed for diabetes and its cardiovascular complications.