Abstract
To appreciate the importance of the Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes (ACCORD) trial,1 one needs to remember that the systolic blood pressure (BP) target currently recommended by major guidelines for diabetic patients, that is, 130 mm Hg, except in the Appropriate Blood Pressure Control in Diabetes Study (ABCD) normotensive trial,7 which consisted of only a few hundred patients and had changes in creatinine clearance as the primary end point. Thus, ACCORD represents the only large-scale randomized trial that provides information on what happens to the cardiovascular risk of diabetic patients when SBP is reduced to 130 mm Hg as a result of randomization to the usual (rather than the tight) BP control treatment strategy. Thus, the message from ACCORD to guidelines and clinical practice is that in diabetic patients it is not necessary to adopt …
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