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Betablockers linked to diabetes

The Times
The Times

The use of betablockers to treat high blood pressure may be causing up to 8,000 additional cases of diabetes in Britain each year, researchers at Imperial College London claim.

In a trial involving 14,120 patients, those who took betablockers had a greater risk of developing Type 2 diabetes when compared with those who took the newer blood pressure drugs Ace inhibitors and calcium channel blockers, the World Congress of Cardiology was told.