A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF OXIDANTS AND ANTI-OXIDANTS IN TYPE 2 DIABETICS WITH HYPERTENSION.

Diabetes and hypertension are two most common non communicable diseases globally. Both the diseases contribute to significant morbidity and mortality in the human race due to affection of every organ of the human body. Epidemiological data suggest that the number of people affected by these diseases is increasing each year. Hence both these diseases are being researched intensively to find out the grass root level pathophysiology. As a result,it has been proved time and again that in both the diseases there is an apparent increase in oxidants and decrease in anti-oxidants resulting in oxidative stress that ultimately leads to injury to various organs. We conducted the present study to look into the level of oxidative stress when both the diseases are present simultaneously in the treatment na?ve North Indians.