METABOLIC SYNDROME IS ACCOMPANIED BY INCREASED SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM ACTIVITY AND ARTERIAL STIFFNESS IN RESISTANT HYPERTENSION

Authors :: Alexandros Kasiakogias
Konstantinos Tsioufis
Kyriakos Dimitriadis
Athanasios Kordalis
Ioannis Andrikou
Dimitris Tsiachris
D. Flessas
Theodoros Kalos
Dimitris Tousoulis
E. Koutra
Source :: Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 65(10)
Publication Year :: 2015
Publisher :: Elsevier BV, 2015.
Abstract: Resistant hypertension is related to sympathetic overdrive and arterial stiffening, while there are scarce data whether metabolic syndrome further potentiates sympathetic activity and vascular abnormalities in this setting. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of the metabolic syndrome on

Subjects :: Scarce data
medicine.medical_specialty
Sympathetic nervous system
business.industry
Resistant hypertension
Sympathetic activity
medicine.disease
medicine.anatomical_structure
Endocrinology
Internal medicine
medicine
Arterial stiffness
Metabolic syndrome
business
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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