Open AccessObesity‐Related Hypertension: Pathogenesis, Cardiovascular Risk, and Treatment
Author(s) -
Landsberg Lewis,
Aronne Louis J.,
Beilin Lawrence J.,
Burke Valerie,
Igel Leon I.,
LloydJones Donald,
Sowers James
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the journal of clinical hypertension
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1751-7176
pISSN - 1524-6175
DOI - 10.1111/jch.12049
Subject(s) - medicine , obesity , metabolic syndrome , position paper , risk factor , epidemiology , intensive care medicine , blood pressure , management of obesity , weight loss , pathology
In light of the worldwide epidemic of obesity, and in recognition of hypertension as a major factor in the cardiovascular morbidity and mortality associated with obesity, The Obesity Society and the American Society of Hypertension agreed to jointly sponsor a position paper on obesity‐related hypertension to be published jointly in the journals of each society. The purpose is to inform the members of both societies, as well as practicing clinicians, with a timely review of the association between obesity and high blood pressure, the risk that this association entails, and the options for rational, evidenced‐based treatment. The position paper is divided into six sections plus a summary as follows: pathophysiology, epidemiology and cardiovascular risk, the metabolic syndrome, lifestyle management in prevention and treatment, pharmacologic treatment of hypertension in the obese, and the medical and surgical treatment of obesity in obese hypertensive patients.