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    Obesity and hypertension: researchers discover new mechanisms

    • Last Update: 2021-08-06
    • Source: Internet
    • Author: User
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    Hypertension is a widespread comorbidity in obese patients, which greatly increases the mortality and disability rate


    Once the researchers increased the leptin hormone in these mice, certain brain cells, namely astrocytes, would promote the production of specific growth factors


    "There is a paradigm shift in our understanding of how the hypothalamus controls blood pressure in obese patients," first author Tim Gruber explained.


    Journal References :

    1. Tim Gruber, Chenchen Pan, Raian E.


    2. Olivia Tysoe.



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