Are Scots with hypertension at high risk of diabetes or impaired glucose tolerance?

[摘要] The incidence of new onset diabetes among patients with hypertension is unknown, though the prevalence has been said to be between 15 and 18%.1 In rural Sweden the mean annual incidence of diabetes has been recorded as 3.46 per 1000 of the total population,2 and a prevalence in England of 2.5% has been reported.3

[学科分类] 卫生学