Research Article

Risk Factors of Hypertension among Diabetic Patients from Yaoundé Central Hospital and Etoug-Ebe Baptist Health Centre, Cameroon

Table 1

Age- and gender-wise distribution of diabetic patients based on their systolic and diastolic blood pressure.

FactorsNormotensiveStage 1 hypertensiveStage 2 hypertensive

Age (years)
 >40 years11a (73.3%)29ab (82.9%)56b (94.9%)
 ≤40 years4 (26.7%)6 (17.1%)3 (5.1%)
 Statistics;
Gender
 Female35 (36.4%)19 (54.3%)12 (80.0%)
 Male24 (63.6%)16 (45.7%)3 (20.0%)
 Statistics;

Frequencies carrying the same superscript letter on the same row were statistically significant ().