Hypertension Control in Diabetic Patients

Background: Diabetes mellitus is one of the commonest diseases world wild and can cause multi-systemic complications, hypertension can co-exist with diabetes and predispose to diabetes complications, both micro and macro-vascular. Objectives: The objectives of this study are to assess the incidence of hypertension in diabetic patients and whether they are controlled or not. Subjects and Method: This is a community-based descriptive cross-sectional study done in Azadi teaching hospital in Kirkuk city from the period of September 2014 until February 2016, 240 diabetic patients were collected using a questionaire, containing details of his condition. Rusults: The study had showed that in which 57% of patients were with high blood pressure, 32% with normal blood pressure and 11% with low blood pressure, most of the hypertensive patients were uncontrolled, and most of the diabetic patients were non-smokers and 55% of them were with non-sedentary life style, but the majority of them were overweight and obese. Conclusions: The study agrees with a lot of studies that hypertension is more common in diabetic patients, especially in those who are obese and smokers and most of them are uncontrolled hypertensive.