Why the study?
Does increased body weight correlate with hemodynamic and metabolic abnormalities and markers of organ damage in hypertensive subjects?
Population
170 individuals, comprising 129 patients with essential hypertension and 41 normotensive, age-matched…
Comparison
Overweight status (BMI ≥25) vs Normal body weight and normotensive healthy…
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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BMI associates with UAE alone among organ damage markers in hypertension; leaves open independent causal role and needs prospective confirmation.
Does increased body weight correlate with hemodynamic and metabolic abnormalities and markers of organ damage in hypertensive subjects?
In hypertensive subjects, increased BMI clusters with metabolic abnormalities but is independently correlated only with urine albumin excretion, a marker of cardiovascular and renal disease.
Bigazzi et al. (2006) studied this question.
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