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:Hypertension is the commonest cardiovascular disorder,affecting 20 % of the adult population in many countries .It is linked with coronary heart disease,stroke,congestive cardiac failure and renal dysfunction and is one of the major risk factor for cardiovascular mortality,which accounts for 20 to 50 % of all deaths.The use of calcium channel blocking agents in the treatment of hypertension shows the critical importance of calcium in the biochemical control of vascular smooth muscle tone,and thus of blood pressure homeostasis.Therefore, we designed a study to find correlation between serum calcium levels and blood pressure .50 normotensive and 50 hypertensive were studied and compared.