Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Increased abdominal visceral adipose tissue (VAT) deposition is associated with insulin resistance in obese and/or hypertensive patients. We investigated the association of insulin sensitivity with the amount of VAT in young, lean, non-treated males with recently established high normal blood pressure or hypertension grade 1 (HT).Subjects and methods: Twenty-one subjects with HT (age 20.3±0.6 years, BMI 22.4±0.5 kg/m2, sys...