ACE and diabetes mellitus: Treatment for hypertension in patients with diabetes should include any of the antihypertensive pharmacotherapy drug classes with demonstrated to reduce cardiovascular risk: angiotensin-converting (ACE) inhibitors, angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB), thiazide-like diuretics (chlorthalidone and indapamide), or dihydropyridine calcium channel antagonists, and the mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists finerenonă [147,148].