8 bevvies a week raises BP risk in diabetes

People with diabetes who are moderate or heavy drinkers are almost twice as likely to have hypertension, study finds
Reuters Health

Drinking eight or more alcoholic beverages in a week could increase the risk of hypertension in adults who have type 2 diabetes, US researchers have found.

And the higher the number of drinks, the higher the increase in the severity of hypertension, they write in the Journal of the American Heart Association.