A combination of hypertension with...

[Bbbananas]

... deranged liver function tests and kidney function tests.

All in a 53 year old chap with a large middle who smokes and drinks and has a sedentary job.

Diagnoses could be....?

[Sqad]

Is it your ex again?

[Bbbananas]

Yup - he's been recalled with sky high BP, deranged tests. He's had a 24-hour BP monitoring which showed very high average readings. I'm surprised he's still walking around.
Despite his outward bravado, he's turning to me for reassurance and comfort (don't laugh.... not that sort of comfort!)

[daffy654]

Diabetes type 2?

[daffy654]

Although those things would be complications arising from diabetes, not symptoms of it I guess.

[Bbbananas]

That's one thing that occurred to me daffy. I would not be surprised.

[Sqad]

I have told you before:

The diagnosis is End Stage Hypertension........Google it.

[Bbbananas]

Just out of the blue though sqad? With no symptoms in the years leading up to it all?

[Sqad]

salla......from what you have said he has had hypertension for many years and I can only guess that it was badly controlled. Uncontrolled hypertension or badly controlled hypertension nay lead to the end stage, so slowly that the symptoms may go unnoticed.

[Bbbananas]

Knowing the cantakerous stubborn old sod, he may well have ignored symptoms in the past - without having had me around for the last 5 years to keep my eye on him! I would guess though that the deranged liver function is more likely due to alcohol intake - I asked him if he knew his GGT level, but he wasn't sure exactly what they had tested.