If your doctor has told you that you have high blood pressure,
or hypertension, you may well have groaned at the thought of
more dietary restrictions and/or another pill to take. Or maybe
you just tuned him out. After all, you have enough to do with
caring for your diabetes, and how serious could high blood
pressure be, anyway, since it has no symptoms? In fact, high
blood pressure is very serious. But paying attention to it now
can save you a lot of grief down the road. Why it matters High
blood pressure is one of the most important risk factors for
stroke, heart attack, and kidney failure in people with
diabetes. While the relationship between high blood pressure and
diabetes is not fully understood, it is known that high blood
pressure is two times more common in people with diabetes than
in the general population. More than half of people with Type 2
diabetes already have high blood pressure at the time of their
diabetes diagnosis. In a person with diabetes, high blood
pressure accelerates the blood vesse