Interrelations Between Diabetes and Arterial Hypertension

Abstract

After reviewing the incidence of diabetes and hypertension as associated diseases, 1,000 cases of diabetes and 1,000 cases of arterial hypertension are reviewed. The statistical results permit us to affirm that there is no direct relation between the two diseases. If hypertension seems to be somewhat more frequent in diabetics than in the general population, this is due to vasculorenal or endocrine alterations which, with relative frequency associates with or are complications of the same diabetes, but this does not support the existence of a common etiopathogenic link.