Table 1. Recommended American Society of Anaesthesiologists (ASA) physical status classification of patient having both diabetes mellitus (DM) and hypertension (HPTN).

Group	Category of patient	ASA physical status classification	Recommended ASA physical status
Group 1.1	Patients with both controlled DM and HPTN	ASA-2	ASA-3
Group 1.2	Patients with controlled HPTN but uncontrolled DM	ASA-3	ASA-3
Group 1.3	Patients with controlled DM but uncontrolled HPTN (stage-II)	ASA-3	ASA-4
Group 1.4	Patients with both uncontrolled DM and HPTN	ASA-3	ASA-4
Group 2	Patients with history of cardiovascular complications attributable to DM and HPTN	ASA-4	ASA-4