Hubungan Kadar Gula Darah Dengan Hipertensi Pada Pasien Diabetes Melitus Tipe 2 Di Rumah Sakit Myria Palembang

Nowadays, diabetes melitus is known as one of common desease. This disease is caused by
the rice of blood glukose level as result of the desease of progressive insulin secresion. Indonesia
is now being in the fourth rank at the diabetic number after USA, China, and India
worldwide. Many people know diabetes is commonly derived from any bad diet and life
style, and it can mainly lead to any other diseases, such as hypertension, stroke, coronary
heart, kidney failure, cataract, and even blindness. This research is particularly aimed to find
the correlations between blood sugar level and hypertension in patiens with diabetes mellitus
tipe 2 in Myria Hospital Palembang. Analiytic survey was used with cross sectional approach.
The respondents were 67 hospitalized patients. Automatic bio system A 15 was and
instrument used to measure the blood sugar level, while medical records were implemented to
check the blood pressure. The Spearman correlation test showed p= 0.74, or p > 0.05. ( Ho
was rejected and Ha was accepted, r = - 0.47 ). There was no correlation between blood sugar
level and hypertension in patients with diabetes mellitus tipe 2 in Myria Hospital Palembang