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Leptin is associated with blood pressure and hypertension in women from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Family Heart Study.
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) - 1 Mar 2009
Ma Duanduan, Feitosa Mary F, Wilk Jemma B, Laramie Jason M, Yu Kai, Leiendecker-Foster Catherine, Myers Richard H, Province Michael A, Borecki Ingrid B
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Leptin is a key neuroendocrine hormone regulating food intake, metabolism, and fat accumulation, and it may also affect blood pressure and contribute to hypertension through sympathetic activation in the vasculature or at the renal level. Although previous studies have shown that the distribution of leptin is significantly different between males and females, as is the risk of hypertension between males and...
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