Mechanisms of obesityrelated hypertension:recent progress
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    Abstract:

    Obesity is the most important risk factor of primary hypertension.Rapid increase of obesityrelated hypertension has become a worldwide problem. But the specific mechanism of the condition remains to be fully understood. This paper reviews the latest literatures and tries to explain the mechanism of obesityrelated hypertension from the following four aspects:hypoadiponectinemia, leptin and resistance of leptin, insulin and resistance of insulin and the activation of reninangiotensin system(RAS).

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  • Received:October 04,2009
  • Revised:January 28,2010
  • Adopted:March 03,2010
  • Online: April 23,2010
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