Journal of Hypertension: Open Access

School of public Health, College of Medicine and Health Science, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

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• Research   
  Socio-demographic and Clinical Predictors of Hypertension and Type2 Diabetes among adults Under treatment at Felege Hiwot Teaching and Specialized Hospital, North-western Ethiopia
  Author(s): Awoke Seyoum Tegegne* and Getu Degu Alene
  
  Background: One of the chronic diseases all over the world due to its significant contribution for the existence of the other health problems is hypertension. It is known that hypertensive patients also exposed to diabetes. The objective of current investigation was to identify socio- demographic and clinical predictors for the variation of hypertension and type2 diabetes for adults under treatments. Methods: In current investigation, a random sample of 748 hypertensive and type2 diabetic patients was selected randomly. A retrospective longitudinal study design was conducted on the selected patients who were receiving treatments for both hypertension and type2 diabetes. Results: The current investigation revealed that age and weight of patients were positively and significantly associated with existence of hypertension.. Read More»
  

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