Re: Blood pressure and risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus: The Women's Health Study

friend Jim Chinnis wrote:
> friend MarilynMann <mannm@comcast.net> wrote in part:
>
> >Staying
> >slender didn't help women with high blood pressure avoid the onset of
> >diabetes, he said.
>
> Interesting, but I wonder how "slender" was determined.
>
> >When the research began in 1993, none of the 38,172 women enrolled had
> >diabetes or heart disease. Participants were divided into four levels
> >of blood pressure, the force with which blood pushes against artery
> >walls when the heart is beating and when it's at rest. The lowest
> >blood pressure level was 120 over 75, while hypertension was defined
> >as 140 or higher over 90.
>
> I presume the women were categorized according to treated as opposed to
> untreated blood pressures.
>
> There are a lot of possible explanations for the results. Blood pressure
> drugs may have included diuretics and beta blockers, known to lead to
> diabetes. Those with higher BPs were probably more likely to be on drug
> combinations that included such drugs.
>
> The measure of "slender" may not have been very good, and fat may have been
> the underlying common cause of both increased blood pressure and diabetes.

Specifically not just fat but harmful VAT (visceral adipose tissue)
would be the culprit.

Women with narrow hips will appear to be "slender" while their WHR is
actually greater than 0.75 indicating the presence of VAT.

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