TO DETERMINE THE PRE-DIABETES AND DIABETES PREVALENCE AMONG HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS
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Objective: Hypertension and diabetes may co-occur in patients. While the hypertension prevalence is 1.6-2.1 times higher in patients with diabetes than without diabetes, nearly 1/3rd of individuals with hypertension advance to diabetes. In this study, prediabetes and diabetes prevalence were examined in hypertensive patients and associated risk factors.
Study Design: A cross sectional study.
Place and Duration: In the Medicine Unit II of Services Hospital, Lahore for six months duration from January 2019 to June 2019.
Methods: After the approval of the institutional ethics committee, cases of hypertension, disease duration, drug treatment, family history, symptoms of comorbidities and fasting and postprandial blood glucose, oral glucose tolerance, lipid profile, serum creatinine, uric acid and SGPT were evaluated. It was investigated to determine.
Results: Of 100 hypertensive patients, 52 were female and 48 were male. 43% were prediabetic and 16% were diabetic.
Conclusion: Prediabetes and diabetes are common among people with known hypertension.
Keywords: prediabetes, glucose intolerance, hypertension, impaired fasting glucose, diabetes.
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