Hypertension among people with diabetes mellitus

Abstract

Background & Aim: Hypertension is a leading cause of death and disability in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Despite the fact that type 2 diabetes is more common in City of Mosul-Iraq, little is known about the prevalence of hypertension and the risk factors that go along with it in people with the disease. It was therefore necessary to investigate the prevalence and related variables of hypertension in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients. Methods & Materials: For this study, a tertiary care diabetes clinics from November 2021 to April 2022 were surveyed. Patients with type 2 diabetes at the Al Wafa clinics of were included in the study's source population. A systematic interviewer-administered questionnaire was used to collect data. SPSS software was used to capture the data. Results: (66.7) percent of the (600) participants were women, with a mean age of 53.84 years and a range of 18 to 68 years, more than a quarter of individuals were current smokers, frequent exercisers with obesity, and more than a third were obese and centrally obese.