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Published in: Current Diabetes Reports 2/2018

01-02-2018 | Other Forms of Diabetes and Its Complications (JJ Nolan and H Thabit, Section Editors)

Type 2 Diabetes and Thiazide Diuretics

Author: André J. Scheen

Published in: Current Diabetes Reports | Issue 2/2018

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Abstract

Purpose of Review

In patients with prediabetes or type 2 diabetes, the use of thiazides as antihypertensive agents has been challenged because associated metabolic adverse events, including new-onset diabetes.

Recent Findings

These metabolic disturbances are less marked with low-dose thiazides and, in most but not all studies, with thiazide-like diuretics (chlorthalidone, indapamide) than with thiazide-type diuretics (hydrochlorothiazide). In post hoc analyses of subgroups of patients with hypertension and type 2 diabetes, thiazides resulted in a significant reduction in cardiovascular events, all-cause mortality, and hospitalization for heart failure compared to placebo and generally were shown to be non-inferior to other antihypertensive agents.

Summary

Benefits attributed to thiazide diuretics in terms of cardiovascular event reduction outweigh the risk of worsening glucose control in type 2 diabetes and of new-onset diabetes in non-diabetic patients. Thiazides still play a key role in the management of patients with type 2 diabetes and hypertension.
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Metadata
Title
Type 2 Diabetes and Thiazide Diuretics
Author
André J. Scheen
Publication date
01-02-2018
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Current Diabetes Reports / Issue 2/2018
Print ISSN: 1534-4827
Electronic ISSN: 1539-0829
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11892-018-0976-6

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