Diabetes independent risk factor for acute cerebral infarction in hypertensive patients

The conclusive points of the study are:

• The control group was primary hypertension patients (concurrent).

• Sex, age, smoking, drinking, lab investigations and other complications were the analysed risk factors.

• There were three hundred patients and 117 cases with hypertensive ACI and hypertension.

• ACI group patients had higher glycosylated haemoglobin, D-dimer and FDPs as compared to the control group patients with a P value of < 0.05.

• There was an association between diabetes mellitus and ACI in primary hypertension patients with OR of 1.452 and a P value of 0.004. This was significant.

The researchers have concluded that poor blood glucose control in pre-morbid diabetes mellitus is associated with ACI occurrence. In ACI patients with primary hypertension, diabetes mellitus is an independent risk factor.

Further reading:

Zheng, D., Li, X. & Fu, Y. Risk factors of acute cerebral infarction in patients with primary hypertension. Ir J Med Sci (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11845-022-03206-4