Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Arterial hypertension (AH) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are common non-infectious diseases with a high tendency to co-exist. Catestatin (CTS) and relaxin-2 have antihypertensive, cardioprotective and metabolic effects and can be considered as biomarkers of these diseases.Objective: To evaluate plasma CTS and RLN-2 levels in hypertensive patients and to investigate their associations with parameters of glucose metabolism and their predi...