title: Contribution of estimated insulin resistance and glucose intolerance to essential hypertension.
abstract: In a population study of 6956 middle-aged men, 5% received drug treatment for hypertension, another 25% had a blood pressure of greater than 160.90 mmHg, and 3.2% were diabetic. Prevalence of impaired glucose tolerance and diabetes was two- to threefold in hypertensive subjects, and 50% of the glucose intolerant or diabetic cases had hypertension. In 4677 unselected subjects without clinical coronary heart disease or previous diabetes, estimated insulin resistance (i.e. the 2-h insulin-to-glucose ratio during an oral glucose tolerance test, controlled for body mass index) correlated with both systolic and diastolic blood pressure. In untreated subjects, a diastolic blood pressure of greater than 90 mmHg was found in conjunction with a higher insulin resistance value than predicted, whereafter blood pressure progressively increased. The contribution of drug treatment to insulin resistance was significant, but less than 1% in the whole material and about 2.5% in cases with impaired glucose tolerance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, University of Lund, Malmö General Hospital, Sweden.
authors.forename: K F
authors.initials: KF
authors.lastname: Eriksson
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lindgärde
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015992:Body Mass Index; D048909:Diabetes Complications; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D005947:Glucose / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D007333:Insulin Resistance / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening; D008875:Middle Aged; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D015995:Prevalence; D013548:Sweden / Q000453:epidemiology
chemical_list: D005947:Glucose