Hypertension is a major cardiovascular risk factor in the metabolic syndrome (MS) in which
the presence of insulin resistance, glucose intolerance, abnormal lipoprotein metabolism …

Background—Essential hypertension (EHT) is a major cardiovascular risk factor, and the
additional presence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) increases this risk. However, although …

The relationship between resting levels of muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSA) and
blood pressure is a matter of controversy. Body weight has recently been identified as an …

Background: Microneurographic recordings of muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA)
have shown that sympathetic activation may characterize diabetes mellitus. However, it is …

Aims/hypothesis Previous studies have shown that alterations in vascular, metabolic,
inflammatory and haemocoagulative functions characterise the metabolic syndrome …

Nerve traffic recordings (muscle sympathetic nerve traffic [MSNA]) have shown that
sympathetic activation may occur in obesity. However, the small sample size of the available …

Hypertension in normal-weight and obese individuals is characterized by activation of the
sympathetic nervous system. Measurement of spillover of the sympathetic transmitter …

Aims/hypothesis Acute insulinaemia activates the sympathetic drive in a nonuniform
manner. The extent and nature of such activation in type 2 diabetic patients who do not have …

Muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) has shown that sympathetic activation may occur
in essential hypertension (EHT). However, the small sample size of the studies, the …

Context: Sympathetic activation promotes insulin resistance and arterial hypertension with
increasing adiposity. A difference in the relationship between adiposity and sympathetic …