Evaluation of 24-Hour Blood Pressure and Arrhythmias through Simultaneous Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring and Holter Monitoring in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients with Hypertension

We studied 1200 (Males=868, Females =332) hypertensive, T2DM hospitalised for 24 hours to analyse the association of hypertension and arrhythmias simultaneously for three years (January 2015-December 2017), as part of the PREDICT protocol, a mixed methods approach, developed as a standard care of management at three tertiary care hospitals. We used Trillium 3000 Holter recorder (Forest Medical) and DynaPulse 5000A Ambulatory Blood Pressure monitoring (ABPM) and the Trillium Gold software, respectively for the recording and the data analysis. ANOVA, Graphpad was used for statistical analysis. The mean age was 51.2 ± 7.9 years (range 41-82 years). The tertile in the triad of age > 60 years, duration of diabetes > 20 years and HbA1c > 11% had the highest incidence of arrhythmias (p 1 mm (26%) and tachycardia (31%) as a sub-group were significantly associated with both the reverse dippers and non-dippers. (p Disclosure V. Redkar: None. S. Redkar: None. S. Redkar: None. A. Inamdar: None. M. Inamdar: None. S. Rane: None. D. Khanolkar: None. M. Jagtap: None. D. Yeralkar: None. N. Wadhwa: None.