Plasma leptin level is positively associated with blood pressure measures independent of gender and BMI.

CONCLUSION: Comparing two groups of hypertensive and normotensive subjects, leptin is found to be positively correlated with hypertension in both genders. Leptin level also tends to be higher in uncontrolled hypertensive patients which may indicate a possible role for leptin in mechanism of uncontrolled hypertension.
PMID: 30582364 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Clinical and Experimental Hypertension - December 22, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Ghaedian MM, Nazari Jaz A, Momeni M, Ghaedian T, Samiei N Tags: Clin Exp Hypertens Source Type: research