Abstract
Background:
The most common chronic non - communicable diseases in the world is Diabetes mellitus. The incidence of diabetes mellitus is increasing with the increase in physical inactivity, sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy dietary habits. In addition to increased glucose level plasma lipid parameters also increase in NIDDM patients. Hypertension is one of the common complications of diabetes which further aggravates the problem. Yoga is an ancient Indian science. Now a days yoga has been applied in the field of therapeutics in various diseases like diabetes, asthma, hypertension.

Aim:
The objective of this case study is to understand effect of yoga in type 2 diabetics with hypertension.

Methods:
The study is conducted on outdoor patient basis at Dept. of medicine VIMSAR Burla with the help of department of Physiology and yoga center Sambalpur. Forty patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (NIDDM) and hypertensive were put through various Yogic asana for 90 days, together with diet plus diabetic medicines. The basal parameters studied include the biochemical investigations like FBG, PPBG, HbA1C and lipid profile along with SBP, DBP.

Results:
Systolic and diastolic blood pressure, fasting, post-prandial blood glucose level and LDL, VLDL, TG, TC showed significant reduction (p value <0.05) with no change in HDL and HbA1C level in tpe 2 diabetic patients with hypertension.

Conclusions:
It may be concluded that yoga helps in decreasing blood sugar level and keep the diabetes in control. The change in lipid profile status prevents the early development of comorbid condition like hypertension, coronary artery disease. It can be concluded that yoga asana and pranayama may be used as an adjunct to medical therapy to emphasizes the control and to manage type 2 diabetes mellitus with hypertension.