ABSTRACT
Even if diabetes mellitus constitutes a serious public health problem in its own right, studies have shown that it is the clustering of risk factors in patients with diabetes that will jointly further increase the risk for complications, e.g., for cardiovascular disease (CVD) (1). Hypertension is more than twice as common in diabetic people as in the general population, affecting 10-30% of type-1 diabetic patients and 60-80% of those with type-2 diabetes. Hypertension is also present in 20-40% of people with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT).
