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To review the pathophysiological mechanisms linking genetic predisposition, insulin resistance, and hyperinsulinemia to essential hypertension.

August 1, 1995Journal of Hypertension

Insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia in hypertension

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To review the pathophysiological mechanisms linking genetic predisposition, insulin resistance, and hyperinsulinemia to essential hypertension.
Narrative synthesis of clinical and physiological literature evaluating metabolic, vascular, and renal mechanisms in hypertension.
Evaluation of metabolic traits in non-obese, non-diabetic hypertensive patients and their normotensive offspring.
Insulin resistance and reactive hyperinsulinemia occur independently of obesity or diabetes in essential hypertension and in lean, normotensive offspring of hypertensive patients.
Pressor mechanisms stimulated by hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance include sympathetic activation, increased renal sodium reabsorption, altered intracellular cation transport, and vascular smooth muscle proliferation.
Insulin resistance functions as an amplifying slow pressor factor that contributes to long-term blood pressure elevation and increased salt sensitivity.

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Narrative review demonstrates how insulin resistance drives blood pressure elevation in hypertensive individuals, highlighting its role as an amplifying slow pressor factor.

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Weidmann et al. (1995) studied this question.

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Narrative review demonstrates how insulin resistance drives blood pressure elevation in hypertensive individuals, highlighting its role as an amplifying slow pressor factor.

Insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia in hypertension

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