Your Messages Inbox
Most Viewed Abstracts
1. Report Shows Shift in Starting Salaries for Physicians 2. 2008 Exclusive Survey—Earnings: Good news for primary care income 3. Medicare pay-for-reporting effort draws fire from frustrated doctors 4. Allopurinol-induced recurrent dress syndrome: Pathophysiology and treatment 5. Debunking Myths in the US Healthcare System
Top Ten Searches
aldosteronism contrast dialysis vitamin d bicarbonate arf amyloidosis hypocalcemia renal artery husYour Article Summary
See Latest ArticlesInsulin resistance is a risk factor for high blood pressure regardless of body size and fat distribution in obese children
Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases, 09/16/09
Brambilla P et al. – Blood pressure is associated with the degree of overweight and the indices of body fat distribution. Insulin resistance is an independent additional risk factor for hypertension.
Related Articles
Evolution, body composition, insulin receptor competition, and insulin resistance
Preventive Medicine, 11/02/09
Relevance Score: 85%
Insulin resistance in hyperthyroidism: the role of IL-6 and TNFalpha
European Journal of Endocrinology, 11/04/09
Relevance Score: 84%
Does skeletal muscle oxidative stress initiate insulin resistance in genetically predisposed individuals
Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism, 11/03/09
Relevance Score: 84%
Insulin Resistance, beta-Cell Dysfunction, and Conversion to Type 2 Diabetes in a Multiethnic Population: The Insulin Resistance Atherosclerosis Study (IRAS)
Diabetes Care, 10/14/09
Relevance Score: 84%
Mechanisms of human insulin resistance and thiazolidinedione-mediated insulin sensitization
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 11/04/09
Relevance Score: 83%
Today in Hypertension...keeping you current
Receive free subspecialty "5-minute updates" via email
Role of rho-kinase in the regulation of vascular tone in hypertensive renal transplant recipients
Atherosclerosis, 12/04/09
O-GlcNAcylation Contributes to Augmented Vascular Reactivity Induced by Endothelin
Hypertension, 12/03/09
Blood pressure in children and target-organ damage later in life
Pediatric Nephrology, 12/03/09
Article Search
Sponsor