Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Apelin is one of the cardiovascular factors, adipokin, which plays an important role not only in the pathogenesis of hypertension, but also of type 2 diabetes (T2D). The aim of the study was to assess apelin levels in blood serum and investigate its relationship with duration of diabetes in hypertension patients with T2D.Methods: The study involved 63 hypertension patients grades 2–3 with T2D (32 men and 31 women) aged 43 to 70. Depend...

Introduction: Endogenous peptide apelin has profound hypotensive and inotropic effects, improves glucose utilization, which emphasizes its importance in the pathogenesis as essential hypertension (EH) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). The aim of this study was to investigate the blood levels of apelin in patients with EH in combination with T2DM.Description of methods/design: The examination involved 19 patients with EH grades 2–3 with T2DM (eigh...