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Assessment of Human Adipose Tissue Microvascular Function Using Videomicroscopy
Published on: September 29, 2017
[Visceral fat and metabolic manifestations in hypertensive men]
Olga Rosa Brito-Zurita1, Pablo Verdín-García, Alberto Domínguez-Banda
1Unidad de Investigación en Epidemiología Clínica, Unidad Médica de Alta Especialidad 167, Hospital de Especialidades 2, Centro Médico Nacional del Noroeste, Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Mexico. olga.brito@imss.gob.mx
Objective:
to determine visceral fat and metabolic profile in hypertensive men with and without obesity.
Methods:
analytic cross-sectional study was carried out. Thirty hypertensive men with obesity and 30 hypertensive men without obesity from a primary care clinic. Visceral and subcutaneous fat (by computer axial tomography), anthropometry, lipid profile, fibrinogen, and glucose (fasting and 2 hr after glucose load) were measured.
Results:
hypertensive obese men were younger (48 + or - 7 versus 57 + or - 6 years) who had higher values of blood pressure, lipids and lipoproteins, waist and hip circumference and total abdominal and subcutaneous fat (420 versus 321 cm(2), p < 0.001; and 257 versus 162 cm(2), p = 0.03). Visceral fat was similar in both groups (163 versus 162 cm(2)). The non obese group had higher levels of glucose either fasting and post glucose load. Both groups had increased mean values of fibrinogen and triglycerides and low concentrations of HDL-c.
Conclusions:
hypertension was associated with increased visceral fat, regardless the BMI. Although obese hypertensive men were younger, they had a metabolic profile more deleterious than non obese men.
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