The effect of abdominal obesity on the level of inflammatory markers in young people with hypertension

Objective: to investigate pro- and anti-inflammatory blood markers in young people with arterial hypertension (AH) against the background of abdominal obesity (AO). Materials and methods: the study included 530 people, including 267 people with hypertension, of which 169 were with AO. In the control group (without AH) there were 263 people comparable in gender and age, with AO - 106 people. The content of TNF-α, IL-6, IL-8, MCP-1 (monocytic chemoatractant protein), PAI-1 (plasminogen activator inhibitor-1), IL-10, IL-17a, IL-17e, IL-17f were determined in all blood by multiplex analysis. Statistical processing was carried out in the SPSS 13.0 program. Results: The level of IL-17a was 1.64 times higher in patients with hypertension (p0.05) compared to the control. The level of IL-6 in patients with hypertension was higher (p0.0001) by 52.91% compared to the group without hypertension. There was no difference between the control and the group with hypertension for the remaining biomarkers. The influence of AO on the level of the studied markers in the control group was not revealed. In the group with AH, a significantly higher level of PAI-1 (p0.05) was in the subgroup with AO. For subgroups with AO, the difference between patients without AH and with AH was manifested in a decrease in IL-17e and an increase in IL-6 in patients with AH (p0.05). No statistically significant difference was found for the remaining indicators. The relative chance of early hypertension was associated with the presence of AO and an increase in the level of IL-6. Conclusion: From the markers of inflammation studied by us, an increased level of IL-6 and IL-17a can serve as potential biomarkers indicating a high probability of developing early hypertension in people under 45 years of age.