Effects of antihypertensive treatment on plasma apelin, resistin, and visfatin concentrations.

CONCLUSIONS Antihypertensive treatment exerts significant and varied effects on adipokine secretion in obese hypertensive patients. Changes in apelin secretion, caused by the use of different antihypertensive drugs, may protect the cardiovascular system and kidneys. The involvement of adipokins in the mechanism of diverse protective effects of antihypertensive drugs, independently of the effect on blood pressure, requires further research. PMID: 27129086 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Polskie Archiwum Medycyny Wewnetrznej - Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Pol Arch Med Wewn Source Type: research