Characterization of the type 2 diabetic patients with arterial hypertension

Abstract

Introduction: due to its high frequency and its condition as risk factor of different complications that are the main cause of death in several countries, diabetes mellitus together with arterial hypertension have triggered a serious emergent health public problem, known as cardiometabolic syndrome affecting wide population sectors.
Materials and methods: a descriptive research was carried out in 96 diabetic patients who entered the Medicine wards in the period January 2016-January 2017 to characterize them according to several clinical, epidemiological and humoral variables.
Results: it was found the predominance of female, black or mestizo patients, aged more than 60 years. It was interesting the predominance of smokers among people that are not hypertensive. The biggest diameter of abdominal waist was found in hypertensive diabetics with overweight and increased body mass index. These patients are those who present main complications in the first years after the diagnosis.
Conclusions: a group of risk factors was identified in hypertensive patients with type 2 diabetes that are useful to evaluate these patients in the primary health care. The location of fat tissues and smoking are the most important risk factors among diabetic and hypertensive population.