Prevalence of Pre-Diabetes and in Adult Hypertensive Patients

Abstract

Background: Diabetes and hypertension are something that coexist in patients. The
prevalence of hypertension is 1.5-2 times more in those with diabetes than in those
without diabetes, whereas almost 1/3of the patients with hypertension develop
diabetes later. In this study, pre-diabetes and diabetes in hypertensive patients and on
coexisting risk factors were studied.
Methods:Afterdiagnosedhypertensioncasesontreatmentwhogavewritteninformedcons
entwerestudied for duration of disease, drug therapy, family history, manifestations
of co-morbidities and investigated for fasting and post-prandial blood sugar, oral
glucose tolerance, lipid profile, serum creatinine, uric acid and SGPT.
Results:Outof100recruitedhypertensivepatients52werefemalesand48weremales.43%
werediagnosed pre- diabetics whereas 16% were diabetics.
Conclusions:Prediabetesanddiabetesarehighlyprevalentamongindividualswithknown
casesofhypertension and pre-hypertension.