Behavior of pressure variability in patients with arterial hypertension and diabetes mellitus with or without insulin use and the influence of the nutritional state in brazil

In diabetic hypertensive patients, nutritional status was not associated with insulin use. In relation to systolic and diastolic blood pressure variability, there were higher elevations in the group that used insulin. Home blood pressure monitoring is an important alternative for monitoring blood pressure variability, which is a predictor of cardiovascular events in hypertensive and diabetic patients, and can be used reliably through telemonitoring.