Association of Diabetes and Hypertension

Hypertension is one of commonest and widespread disease of mankind. It is an asymptomatic disease in majority of the cases until some complications develop. Hypertension has been reported to be more common in diabetic patients than in the non diabetic population. In the total population, investigated moderate/severe hypertensive subjects constitute 46.6% of the total diabetic subjects. Mild hypertension is of the order of 28.6% in the borderline diabetes category. Borderline diabetic subjects have maximum number of isolated systolic hypertensive (33.6%) subjects. 14.3% Mild hypertensive subjects are present in the newly detected diabetic subjects. Relationship between the various categories of hypertension and different status of diabetic subjects is highly significant in borderline (p<0.0001) subjects, significant in known (p<0.05) and hypoglycemic (p<0.05) subjects.