Tuck M L
UCLA School of Medicine.
Postgrad Med J. 1988;64 Suppl 3:76-83; discussion 90-2.
Diabetes mellitus is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality which often can be attributed to the frequent coexistence of arterial hypertension. There is an additive effect of high blood pressure and elevated blood sugar on the severity, extent and rate of progression of atherosclerotic macrovascular disease. Current evidence has also linked hypertension to acceleration of the chronic microvascular complications of diabetes mellitus including diabetic nephropathy and retinopathy. These facts emerge to place diabetic hypertension as a most important public health issue. Questions of frequency, aetiology and the implications of intervention therapy for hypertension in diabetes mellitus are reviewed in this article and can be found in several recent reviews.
糖尿病与心血管疾病发病率和死亡率的增加相关，这通常可归因于动脉高血压的频繁并存。高血压和高血糖对动脉粥样硬化大血管疾病的严重程度、范围和进展速度具有累加效应。目前的证据还将高血压与糖尿病慢性微血管并发症（包括糖尿病肾病和视网膜病变）的加速发展联系起来。这些事实表明，糖尿病高血压是一个极其重要的公共卫生问题。本文对糖尿病中高血压的发生率、病因及干预治疗的意义等问题进行了综述，相关内容在最近的几篇综述中也可找到。
