Population
2,380 subjects aged 16 to 65 years from a general Japanese population, including 290 hypertensive subjects.
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Sex differences in insulin-BP association merit targeted research; leaves open causal direction and clinical relevance pending prospective data.
The relationship between insulin resistance and blood pressure exhibits significant sex differences, being independently correlated in men but not women in a Japanese population.
Saito et al. (1996) studied this question.
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