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A man who has a 7-year history of type 2 diabetes and a 3-year history of hypertension can last how long without taking his prescribed medications Metformin and Amlodipine? In other words, how long can this person last without taking their medications before severe symptoms arise? Especially if this person has recently not been compliant with their diet and has increased alcohol and smoking consumption. If you can please explain in detail.

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The patient who do not take medicines for diabetes and hypertension would not live long life.because,skipping medication can increase the risk factors .it includes blindness and kidney damage.this would require dialysis and nerve damage.He has hypertension also due to the consequences of diabetes as it is a syndrome of various disease.so ,if he skips the m edication he will down with heart disease .finally,these both diseasea and non modifieble life as he takes alchohol and smoking will increase the chance of getting cerebro vascular accident.if it is haemorrogic stroke ,chances of death is high.in ishchemic stroke patient may live for some more years but he get paralysed or loss of speech after ishchemic stroke.

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