title: [Visceral fat and metabolic manifestations in hypertensive men].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to determine visceral fat and metabolic profile in hypertensive men with and without obesity.
  
  
  METHODS
  analytic cross-sectional study was carried out. Thirty hypertensive men with obesity and 30 hypertensive men without obesity from a primary care clinic. Visceral and subcutaneous fat (by computer axial tomography), anthropometry, lipid profile, fibrinogen, and glucose (fasting and 2 hr after glucose load) were measured.
  
  
  RESULTS
  hypertensive obese men were younger (48 + or - 7 versus 57 + or - 6 years) who had higher values of blood pressure, lipids and lipoproteins, waist and hip circumference and total abdominal and subcutaneous fat (420 versus 321 cm(2), p < 0.001; and 257 versus 162 cm(2), p = 0.03). Visceral fat was similar in both groups (163 versus 162 cm(2)). The non obese group had higher levels of glucose either fasting and post glucose load. Both groups had increased mean values of fibrinogen and triglycerides and low concentrations of HDL-c.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  hypertension was associated with increased visceral fat, regardless the BMI. Although obese hypertensive men were younger, they had a metabolic profile more deleterious than non obese men.
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Investigación en Epidemiología Clínica, Unidad Médica de Alta Especialidad 167, Hospital de Especialidades 2, Centro Médico Nacional del Noroeste, Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Mexico. olga.brito@imss.gob.mx
authors.forename: Olga Rosa
authors.initials: OR
authors.lastname: Brito-Zurita
authors.forename: Pablo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Verdín-García
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Domínguez-Banda
authors.forename: Ana Elizabeth
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Cortez-Valenzuela
authors.forename: Rosa María
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Villanueva-Pérez
authors.forename: Margarita
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Torres-Tamayo
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications* / Q000378:metabolism*; D050152:Intra-Abdominal Fat / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications; D009929:Organ Size; D055815:Young Adult