Type of obesity and blood pressure
1982
Berglund, Goran | Ljungman, Susanne | Hartford, Marianne | Wilhelmsen, L (Lars) | Björntorp, Per
Body composition and adipose fat cell size and number were determined in a randomly selected sample of 120 middle-aged males (age 49) with blood pressures (BP) ranging from very low to very high, in an attempt to clarify whether BP is related to fat cell size or number, or both. It was determined that BP increased linearly with body weight over the entire BP range, while body fat and fat cell size increased with increasing BP in the non-hypertensive (but not the hypertensive) BP range. Fat cell number and body cell mass were unrelated to BP, but fat cell size (not number) correlated positively with most variables of glucose metabolism. The results suggest that, in normal men: the relationship between body weight and BP is due to an association between body fat and BP; BP positively correlates with increased fat cell size (indicating hypertrophic obesity) and not with fat cell number; and increased fat cell size correlates with impaired glucose tolerance and hyperinsulinemia. (wz)
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