The relationship between type ii diabetes mellitus and hypertension among the patients attended Al-Leith hospital
International Journal of Development Research
The relationship between type ii diabetes mellitus and hypertension among the patients attended Al-Leith hospital
Received 14th October, 2019; Received in revised form 26th November, 2019; Accepted 21st December, 2019; Published online 29th January, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Tatiana Almeida Couto et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This study was conducted in order to find the relationship between Diabetes Mellitus type II (D.M) and hypertension, and to know which one may cause the other from records of 53 patients who are frequently visiting the Center for Chronic Diseases. Also a questionnaire was designed to study the relationship of the two diseases among 31 patients. Considering the factors of sex, age and weight, five consecutive readings of blood pressure and blood sugar, were collected and analyzed. Also the data of the questionnaire was analyzed. The results showed that there is a association between diabetes and hypertension since the P-value < 0.05. i.e. the development of hypertension and diabetes mellitus track each other over time. Also it was found that an elevation of blood pressure and blood sugar readings are affected by the three factors sex, age and weight.
