TY - JOUR AU - Manjavkar, Smita Suneet AU - Kharaje, Jayashree AU - Gangurde, Aparna AU - Save, Manas PY - 2016/12/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Prevalence of pre-diabetes and diabetic status in hypertensive patients JF - International Journal of Research in Medical Sciences JA - Int J Res Med Sci VL - 4 IS - 5 SE - Original Research Articles DO - 10.18203/2320-6012.ijrms20161241 UR - https://www.msjonline.org/index.php/ijrms/article/view/773 SP - 1641-1644 AB - <p class="abstract"><strong>Background:</strong> Diabetes and hypertension are known to coexist in patients. The prevalence of hypertension is 1.5-2.0 times more in those with diabetes than in those without diabetes, whereas almost one-third of the patients with hypertension develop diabetes later. In this study, pre-diabetes and diabetes in hypertensive patients and on coexisting risk factors were studied.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Methods:</strong> After institutional ethics committee approval diagnosed hypertension cases on treatment who gave written informed consent were studied for duration of disease, drug therapy, family history, manifestations of co-morbidities and investigated for fasting and post-prandial blood sugar, oral glucose tolerance, lipid profile, serum creatinine, uric acid and SGPT.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Results:</strong> Out of 100 recruited hypertensive patients 52 were females and 48 were males. 43% were diagnosed pre-diabetics where as 16% were diabetics.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Conclusions:</strong> Prediabetes and diabetes are highly prevalent among individuals with known cases of hypertension.</p> ER -