Demydenko, Ganna2014-11-212014-11-212014-04Demydenko A. V. Investigation of plasma apelin level in patients with essential hypertension corresponding to the type of obesity / A. V. Demydenko // Научные ведомости Белгородского государственного университета. Серия Медицина. Фармация. – 2014. – № 4. – С. 52–57.https://repo.knmu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/7795Obesity has been consistently associated with hypertension and increased cardiovascular risk. Based on population studies risk estimates indicate that at least two-thirds of the prevalence of hypertension can be directly attributed to obesity. Although BMI as a measure of obesity is a good predictor of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, as recently described in two separate meta-analyses [1, 2], overall mortality and especially cardiovascular mortality seems to be better predicted by abdominal or central obesity in addition to BMIenessential hypertensionapelinArticle