study of some risk factors for hypertension in diabetic patients at Suez governorate

ABSTRACT

Three hundred and thirteen unselected persons, 150 diabetic and 163 non diabetics, aged above 30 years were surveyed in this study. Full history, complete clinical examination and analysis for blood sugar and cholesterol were done for all cases. It was found that, the prevalence of hypertension in diabetic group was 37.3% and among non diabetic it was 13.4% [P<0.001]. Diabetic female patients were affected with hypertension higher than diabetic male [39% and 23.5% respectively]. The prevalence of hypertension increased with the increase of the duration of diabetes. Also, there is a positive correlation between blood glucose level and mean systolic blood pressure. Finally, the prevalence of hypertension among obese diabetic patients was higher than obese non diabetics [p<0.05]. Also, obese diabetic female patients developed hypertension [44%] more frequent than obese diabetic male patients [21%]