Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery

Hypertension and Obesity

Obesity can bring about critical health problems which might be probably lifestyles threatening, which includes high blood pressure, kind II diabetes mellitus, accelerated hazard for coronary disease, accelerated unexplained coronary heart failure, hyperlipidemia, infertility, better occurrence of colon, prostate, endometrial, and breast cancer. Although the connection among weight problems and high blood pressure is properly mounted in kids and adults, the mechanism via way of means of which weight problems immediately reasons high blood pressure is under investigation.

Activation of the sympathetic anxious system, the quantity of intra-stomach and intra-vascular fat, sodium retention main to growth in renal reabsorption, and the renin-angiotensin system, are taken into consideration to have vital features with in the pathogenesis of weight problems associated high blood pressure, a continual clinical circumstance wherein the blood strain is consistently at or >one hundred forty/ninety mmHg however now no longer on the ordinary degree that's described as 100–one hundred forty and 60–ninety mmHg for systolic and diastolic strain, respectively.

• Obesity Increases Tissue Blood Flow and Cardiac Output, and Decreases Blood Flow Reserve
• Renal Compression Caused by Visceral, Retroperitoneal, and Renal Sinus Fat
• RAAS Activation in Obesity
• Role of Ang II in Obesity Hypertension
• Role of MR Activation in Obesity Hypertension
• Autonomic Nervous System and Renal Nerves in Obesity