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.