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- Title
Hyperinsulinemia, family history of hypertension, and essential hypertension.
- Authors
Grandi, Anna M.; Gaudio, Giovanni; Fachinetti, Anna; Bianchi, Lorenzo; Nardo, Barbara; Zanzi, Paolo; Ceriani, Luca; Guasti, Luigina; Venco, Achille
- Abstract
The aim of this study was the evaluation of the relationships among hyperinsulinemia, a family history of hypertension, and essential hypertension. Insulin and C-peptide responses to an oral glucose load were studied in 175 lean normotensives (N) and untreated hypertensives (H) with (F+) and without (F−) a family history of hypertension: 30 NF-, 30 NF+, 45 HF-, and 70 HF+. The groups were comparable for age, sex, body mass index, and blood pressure. The following parameters were evaluated: plasma glucose (G), serum insulin (I), and C-peptide (Cp) before and 30, 60, 90, and 120 min after the glucose load, fasting glucose/insulin ratio (ISI), fasting insulin/C-peptide ratio (I/Cp), and 24-h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. Plasma glucose was measured, fasting and during the test, and it and I/Cp were similar in the four groups. Serum insulin and Cp, both fasting and stimulated, were significantly higher and ISI lower in normotensives and hypertensives with hypertensive parents. Grouping the subjects first on the basis of blood pressure and then on the basis of family history, no differences were found between normotensives and hypertensives, whereas I and Cp, fasting and stimulated, were significantly higher and ISI lower in subjects with positive as compared to negative family history. The closest correlations between insulin and ambulatory blood pressure were found in normotensives with hypertensive parents; in hypertensives with hypertensive parents we only found a direct correlation between fasting Cp and nocturnal blood pressure fall; in hypertensives with normotensive parents insulin inversely correlated with nocturnal blood pressure fall. Insulin resistance seems to have a familial basis, independently of the presence of hypertension. Instead of showing a causal relationship between insulin resistance and hypertension, our results indicate that the two are partly independent components of a common familial pattern.Am J Hypertens (1996) 9, 732-738; doi: 0895-7061(96)00095-7
- Publication
American Journal of Hypertension, 1996, Vol 9, Issue 8, p732
- ISSN
0895-7061
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1016/0895-7061(96)00095-7