title: Higher serum insulin level due to greater total body fat mass in offspring of patients with essential hypertension.
abstract: To determine whether the offspring of hypertensive patients (OHP) might have a higher serum insulin level than offspring of normotensive parents, we studied 152 girls in junior high school, 21 of whom had at least one hypertensive parent. The remaining 131 girls had normotensive parents and served as the controls. After an overnight fast, we measured the subjects' height, body weight, blood pressure and body fat mass, and collected blood for assay of serum immunoreactive insulin (IRI), lipids and apolipoproteins. Despite a similar body mass index, the OHP had a significantly greater body fat mass (P < 0.05) and % fat mass (P < 0.05) than the controls. The OHP exhibited a significantly higher serum IRI level than the controls (P < 0.05), but no differences in blood pressure or serum lipids. In the OHP, % body fat mass was significantly correlated with systolic blood pressure (P < 0.05), triglyceride (P < 0.01) and apolipoprotein B (P < 0.01), not observed in controls. The serum IRI of the OHP, but not that of controls, was significantly correlated with systolic blood pressure (P < 0.05), serum triglyceride (P < 0.02) and apolipoprotein B (P < 0.05). Thus, a higher serum IRI level due to an increase in total body fat mass appears to be an inherited trait that contributes to the development of hypertension and dyslipidemia.
authors.affiliation: Ishibashi Clinic, Hiroshima, Japan.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ishibashi
mesh_terms: D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D000293:Adolescent; D016632:Apolipoprotein A-I / Q000032:analysis; D001055:Apolipoproteins B / Q000097:blood; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000032:analysis; D001794:Blood Pressure; D015992:Body Mass Index; D002784:Cholesterol / Q000097:blood; D008076:Cholesterol, HDL / Q000097:blood; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000235:genetics*; D007328:Insulin / Q000097:blood*; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents; D012016:Reference Values; D014280:Triglycerides / Q000097:blood
chemical_list: D016632:Apolipoprotein A-I; D001055:Apolipoproteins B; D001786:Blood Glucose; D008076:Cholesterol, HDL; D007328:Insulin; D014280:Triglycerides; D002784:Cholesterol