The Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial

The Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial or ALLHAT clinical trial is worth a look if you have hypertension.

Your friendly drug rep probably won't talk too much about it. It doesn't support the recent American broadening of guidelines for lipid lowering and it favours for first line treatment of blood pressure a diuretic that has been around for years and costs a few dollars a month. Go here
into the professionals FAQ page. If you are diabetic and take note of what is said about lisinopril, an ACE inhibitor, and diuretics. What advice have you had about this before?