PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Doctors have established a new link between high blood pressure and diabetes.
A team at Ohio State Medical Center says the hormone aldosterone, which is known to increase blood pressure, also raises the diabetes risk.
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Overall, those with the highest levels of aldosterone had twice the rate of diabetes, but it was even higher in certain ethnicities.
"Among African Americans, there was almost a 3-fold increase in the risk of diabetes over 10 years, and among Asian-Americans, or Chinese-Americans, specifically, there was about a 10-fold increase," said Dr. Joshua Joseph.
The doctors are about to launch a test to see if drugs that lower aldosterone prevent diabetes in African Americans with pre-diabetes.
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