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Are antihypertensive drugs associated with an increased risk of incident type 2 diabetes?

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The synopsis was written by Vicky Heath, Associate Editor, Nature Clinical Practice.

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  1. Department of Preventive Medicine, PA Sarafidis is a postdoctoral fellow in hypertension and GL Bakris is the Director of the Hypertension/Clinical Research Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.,

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Sarafidis, P., Bakris, G. Are antihypertensive drugs associated with an increased risk of incident type 2 diabetes?. Nat Rev Endocrinol 3, 8–9 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpendmet0315

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