To Determine The Significant Risk Factors Of Hypertension Among Type 2 Diabetes Patients: A Case Study Of Kenyatta National Hospital

Abstract

Hypertension among type 2 Diabetes patients has grown and it is a public problem in Kenya, Africa and worldwide. My study was done to explore the risk factors associated with Hypertension among Type 2 Diabetes patients at Kenyatta National Hospital Diabetes Outpatient Clinics. A hospital based cross-sectional survey was conducted among type 2diabetes patients over a six-month period . A total of 200 patients were recruited based on inclusion criteria. The associations between binary outcome variable and demographic and clinical explanatory variables was done by use of binary logistic regression analysis. Among risk factors consider are age, gender, marital status, obesity, blood pressure, lower urinary tract infections , highest education level and smoking status. Both univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses revealed that age had a significant positive influence on hypertension status(p-value <0.01). A type 2 diabetes patient is 7% more likely to develop hypertension for every additional year in age after adjusting for all other risk factors