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Objectives: The aim of study was to compare serum lipid levels in patients with and without a diagnosis of arterial hypertension. Methods: The present work was a hospital based, analytical cross-sectional study conducted over the period of one year from November 2016 to December 2017. The study included 217 hypertensive patients and 184 non hypertensive subjects aged 35–70 years, who were free of clinical atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases. Dyslipidemia includes patients who have total cholesterol (LDL-C, HDL-C) or triglyceride level abnormalities. Arterial hypertension is defined as blood pressure of ≥140/90 mm Hg or more. STATA 12.1 software was used for data analysis. The patient characteristics and serum lipid levels were described by parametric statistics and the differences between hypertensive and non-hypertensive patients were analyzed by Odds ratios (with 95% confidence intervals). A P-value of less than 0.05 was considered to be statistically significant for all analyses. Results: The study sample consisted of 159 men (39.6%) and 242 women (60.4%). The mean age of participants was 47.6 ± 0.6 years. The incidences of dyslipidemia and lipitension were 56.5% and 31.4% among all participants. There was a significant association between body mass index and incidence of hypertension. The total cholesterol, triglyceride values and TC/HDL-C ratio were significantly higher in hypertensive patients, compared to non-hypertensive group (table 1). Conclusion: Dyslipidemia was more common in patients with arterial hypertension than for those in subjects without hypertension. Statistically significant difference was observed in total cholesterol, triglyceride and TC/HDL ratio between hypertensive patients and non-hypertensive subjects