[Progress in hypertension and diabetes in 2010]

Abstract

New developments in hypertension and diabetes mellitus in 2010 have been dominated by the search for a consensus on the aims of blood pressure control and on diagnostic criteria for diabetes mellitus, both of which have featured in the clinical studies and guidelines published throughout the year. These two risk factors continue to provoke debate about the seriousness of their implications for cardiovascular disease, and knowledge about them is increasing. The year 2010 was notable for the publication of new diagnostic criteria for diabetes mellitus by the American Diabetes Association, of revised guidelines on hypertension from the European Society of Hypertension, and of the results of a number of clinical trials and meta-analyses that have deepened our knowledge of the treatment of hypertension and diabetes.