Blood pressure and cardiorenal responses to antihypertensive therapy in obese women.

Objective: Blood pressure (BP) and target organ responses to antihypertensive drugs are not well established in hypertensive obese patients. This study is aimed at evaluating the effects of obesity and adiposity distribution patterns on these responses.

Methods: 49 hypertensive obese women were designated to different groups according to waist to hip ratio measurements--37 with troncular and 12 with peripheral obesity.

Two-hour insulin determination improves the ability of abdominal fat measurement to identify risk for the metabolic syndrome.

Objective: Visceral obesity is shown to be a predictor of morbidity and mortality. We evaluated the association of measurements of generalized adiposity and visceral fat area (VFA), with abnormalities of metabolic syndrome (MS).

Research Design And Methods: Seventy-six women (47.

Left ventricular hypertrophy evaluation in obese hypertensive patients: effect of left ventricular mass index criteria.

Purpose: To evaluate left ventricular mass (LVM) index in hypertensive and normotensive obese individuals.

Methods: Using M mode echocardiography, 544 essential hypertensive and 106 normotensive patients were evaluated, and LVM was indexed for body surface area (LVM/BSA) and for height2 (LVM/h2). The 2 indexes were then compared in both populations, in subgroups stratified according to body mass index (BMI): <27; 27-30; >/= 30kg/m2.