Open Access<p>Increased Level of Systolic Blood Pressure in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients with Diabetes Mellitus</p>
Author(s) -
Weishuo Zhang,
Xiaoou Li,
Hui Zhang,
Chun Gao,
Fang Long,
Hua-Yuan Yang
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.853
H-Index - 43
ISSN - 1178-7007
DOI - 10.2147/dmso.s251943
Subject(s) - medicine , interquartile range , blood pressure , diabetes mellitus , gastroenterology , odds ratio , confidence interval , hepatocellular carcinoma , cirrhosis , type 2 diabetes mellitus , endocrinology
More than 50% of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) also have hypertension. Moreover, hypertension has been regarded as one paraneoplastic phenomenon of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Our study was designed to determine the relationship between blood pressure and DM in HCC patients.