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		See also:
		All diabetes clinical trials
				
			
			
				
					All hypertension clinical trials
				
			
		
			
			All clinical trials of anti hypertensive agent 
			
		
		
			
			All clinical trials of irbesartan |  | Treatments
	
		| Studied treatment | irbesartan, at a dose of either 150 mg daily or 300 mg daily 
 |  
		| Control treatment | placebo 
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			| Remarks | 3 arms trial: irbesartan 150 and 300 mg daily, placebo |  Patients
		
			| Patients | hypertensive patients with type 2 diabetes and microalbuminuria |  
			| Inclusion criteria | hypertension (at least two of three consecutive measurements
obtained one week apart during the run-in period of a mean systolic
blood pressure of more than 135 mm Hg or a mean diastolic
blood pressure of more than 85 mm Hg, or both); age between 30 and 70 years; persistent microalbuminuria (defined
as an albumin excretion rate of 20 to 200 ìg per minute in
two of three consecutive, sterile, overnight urine samples) and a serum
creatinine concentration of no more than 1.5 mg per deciliter
(133 ìmol per liter) for men and no more than 1.1 mg per deciliter
(97 ìmol per liter) for women |  
			| Exclusion criteria | nondiabetic kidney
disease; cancer; life-threatening disease with death expected to occur
within two years; indication for angiotensin-converting
enzyme (ACE) inhibitors or angiotensin-IIreceptor antagonists |  | Baseline characteristics | 
						
							| Duration of diabetes | 10 yr |  
							| Glycosylated hemoglobin | 7.1 % |  
							| BP (systolic/diastolic) | 153/90 |  
							| Female (%) | 31.3% |  
							| Age | 58.3 y |  
							| subgroup | no |  
							| hypertension (%) | 100% |  |  Method and design
	
		| Randomized effectives | 389 / 201 (studied vs. control) |  
			| Design | Parallel groups |  
			| Blinding | double-blind |  
			| Follow-up duration | 2 years |  
			| Number of centre | 96 |  
			| Geographic area | Worldwide |  
			| Hypothesis | Superiority |  
			| Primary endpoint | diabetic nephropathy |  
 
 Results
	
		
	
	
		
			Endpoint
		
	
	
		
		Studied treat.n/N
			
	
	
		
		Control treat.
 n/N
		
	
	
		
			Graph
		
	
	
		
			RR [95% CI]
 
				microvascular events 
				NA / 590 NA / 0
 0,30 [0,14;0,64]
				
			
	
	
		
		
		
		
		
			
				0
			
		
		
		
		
		
				2
		
		
		
		
		
			1.0
 
		
		
				
					| Relative risks |  
			| Endpoint | Events (%) | Relative Risk | 95% CI | Endpoint definition in the trial
 | Ref |  
			| Studied treat. | Control treat. |  
			| The primary endpoint (if exists) appears in blod characters |  
			| Reference(s) used for data extraction: |  
			
			| Endpoint | studied treat. | control treat. | mean diff |  
	
	
				
					| Absolute risk reduction |  
		| Endpoint | Events rate | Absolute risk reduction (ARR)
 |  
		| Studied treat. | Control treat. |  Meta-analysis of all similar trials: 
				
					angiotensin renin system blockade in diabetes for all type of patients
				
			 
				
					angiotensin-receptor blockers in diabetes for all type of patients
				
			 
				
					anti hypertensive agent in diabetes for type1 and 2 diabetic patients with hypertension
				
			 
				
					anti hypertensive agent in hypertension for diabetic patients 
				
			 
 
 
		 Reference(s)
			
				
			    Parving HH, Lehnert H, Bröchner-Mortensen J, Gomis R, Andersen S, Arner P. 
			    The effect of irbesartan on the development of diabetic nephropathy in patients with type 2 diabetes..
			    N Engl J Med 2001;345:870-8
			    
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