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  • Title: Lipolytic sensitivity and response to fasting in normotensive and hypertensive obese humans.
    Author: Townsend RR, Klein S.
    Journal: Metabolism; 1997 Sep; 46(9):1080-4. PubMed ID: 9284900.
    Abstract:
    Obese persons with hypertension are at greater risk for diabetes and hyperlipidemia than normotensive obese persons. It has been postulated that increased lipolytic rates contribute to these metabolic diseases. Therefore, we evaluated the glycerol rate of appearance (Ra) in plasma, an index of whole-body lipolytic activity, during basal conditions and during 60 minutes of epinephrine infusion after 12 and 84 hours of fasting in six normotensive (body mass index [BMI], 39.9 +/- 1.8 kg/m2) and six hypertensive (BMI, 38.7 +/- 1.6 kg/m2) obese persons. Basal glycerol Ra was lower in hypertensive than in normotensive subjects at both 12 hours (1.58 +/- 0.21 v 2.27 +/- 0.28 mumol/kg/min, respectively; P < .01) and 84 hours (2.04 +/- 0.06 v 2.50 +/- 0.13 mumol/kg/min, respectively; P < .01) of fasting. Peak glycerol Ra during epinephrine infusion after 84 hours of fasting (5.69 +/- 0.72 and 11.40 +/- 0.78 mumol/kg/min for hypertensive and normotensive subjects, respectively) was significantly greater than at 12 hours (3.09 +/- 0.29 and 5.06 +/- 0.69 mumol/kg/min) in both hypertensive and normotensive subjects. However, peak glycerol Ra was lower in hypertensive than in normotensive subjects after 12 and 84 hours of fasting (P < .01 for 84 hours). We conclude that hypertension in obese persons is associated with a decrease in both basal lipolytic rates and lipolytic sensitivity to epinephrine infusion.
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