Frequency of hypertension studied by ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in type two diabetes

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Objectives: To know the frequency of hypertension in a group of males with type two diabetes without the antecedent of hypertension, by means of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM). To assess the possible differences between the subjects with and without hypertension in age, time of duration of diabetes, obesity and the features of metabolic syndrome. Methods: We included consecutively 55 males with type two diabetes without the antecedent of hypertension. We made an anthropometric and analytic evaluation and an ABPM during 24 h. For the diagnostic of hypertension we used the ‘VII Report of the Joint National Committee on prevention, detection, evaluation and treatment of high blood pressure’. For the diagnosis of metabolic syndrome we used the ‘NCEP ATP III guidelines’. Results: We detected high blood pressure in 20 patients (36.4%). The most part (50%) had elevated systolic and diastolic …

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2008

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