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Authors
Affiliations
1 Lecturer in Medical College Kirkuk University (Internal Medicine), IQ
2 Specialist Pediatrician at kirkuk city, IQ
3 Assistant Professor in Medical College Kirkuk University, IQ
Source
Medico-Legal Update, Vol 20, No 1 (2020), Pagination: 256-261
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Diabetes mellitus, hypertension, smoking, BMI
