Lipid profile in Sudanese patients with Type 2 DM and Hypertension

This is a cross- sectional study compared the serum levels of total cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL-cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol of 50 Sudanese patients suffering from type 2 diabetes mellitus associated with hypertension as a test group and 30 apparently healthy volunteers as control group (A) and 30 diabetic normotensive patients as control group (B).The serum levels of lipids profile were determined The means of serum levels of total cholesterol, triglycerides and LDL-cholesterol were significantly increased in the test group compared to the control group A whereas they showed no significant difference when compared to control group B the means of serum levels of HDL-cholesterol showed insignificant differences, when the test group was compared to control group A and control group B. From the results of the present study it is concluded that; there is no significant difference in serum lipid profile between diabetic-hypertensive and diabetic ¿nonhypertensive patients.