title: [Is essential hypertension essentially metabolic?].
abstract: Hypertension is one of the most prevalent cardiovascular risk factors. Most of the cases are not due to secondary causes and are diagnosed as essential hypertension, although a common physiopathologic link underlies for diabetes and dyslipidemia that are usually present. Most hypertensive patients have also obesity and insulin resistance and this may be more than an epidemiologic association, but one of the main physiopathologic basis of essential hypertension.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Cardiología, Clínica Universitaria de Navarra, Pamplona, Navarra, Spain. acordero@unav.es
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cordero Fort
authors.forename: José
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Moreno Arribas
authors.forename: Eduardo
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Alegría Ezquerra
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology*