New research from the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health shows that adults in the U.S. with both hypertension and type 2 diabetes (T2D) face a much higher risk or all-cause mortality and as a three times higher cardiovascular risk of mortality than those people with only one, or neither of these conditions. The study, published in Diabetes Care , the journal of the American Diabetes Association, was spurred by growing evidence that hypertension and T2D interaction pose significant risk of adverse health outcomes.

“Hypertension affects nearly half of U.S. adults, and prevalence is projected to increase to 61% by 2050, said the study’s senior author Nour Makarem, PhD, an assistant professor of epidemiology at Mailman School of Public Health. “Type 2 diabetes currently affects

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