Shalan Alaamri, Abdulhalim S Serafi, Zahir Hussain, Shouq K Bafail, Mohammed A Bafail, Lusine Demirkhanyan, Christopher S Gondi, Sumera Sohail
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Overweight-Related Hypertension in Middle-Aged Men Is Linked to Elevated Leptin, TNF-α, IL-6, Cholesterol, and Reduced Testosterone.
Background/objectives: One of the major causes of hypertension (HT) is the transition of normal weight (NW) status to overweight (OW) status and obesity in a population, which leads to cardiovascular disease (CVD) and other disorders. A variety of factors/variables are involved in the development of HT and OW-related hypertension (OHT). However, we planned to investigate the pathophysiological role of serum leptin (Lep), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), interleukin-6 (IL-6), total cholesterol (TC) and serum testosterone (ST) in OHT in middle-aged men.
Methods: We consulted three groups of middle-aged men (age: 51-60 years)-an HT group (n: 97, high normal weight (HNW), body mass index (BMI): 23-24.9 kg/m2); an OHT group (n: 97, high overweight (HOW), BMI: 28-29.9 kg/m2) and a normal control group (NC, n: 98, HNW)-to investigate the variations in and correlations of Lep, IL-6, TNF-α, ST, TC and other variables.
Results: Significant variations were obtained for the comparisons of TNF-α, Lep, ST and TC for the patient groups. OHT vs. NC showed a significant difference for ST. OHT vs. NC and OHT vs. HT had significant variations for IL-6. Significant changes were obtained for the serum levels of TNF-α, Lep, IL-6, ST and TC among groups. Significant and positive linear associations were obtained for TNF-α, Lep, TC and IL-6. Significant and negative linear associations were found for ST plotted against Lep, TNF-α and IL-6.
Conclusions: The current report provides pathophysiological evidence of the interactive role of serum Lep, TNF-α, ST, TC and IL-6 in middle-aged men with HT and OHT. We suggest that the changes we noted in the present study would be helpful for further BMI-based studies in various subcategories of NW, OW and obese subjects with/without HT.
期刊介绍:
Pathophysiology is an international journal which publishes papers in English which address the etiology, development, and elimination of pathological processes. Contributions on the basic mechanisms underlying these processes, model systems and interdisciplinary approaches are strongly encouraged.