Demydenko, GannaKovalyova, Olga2014-11-182014-11-182014-06Demydenko G. Adipokine apelin activity in patients with essential hypertension and central obesity / G. Demydenko, O. Kovalyova // Journal of Hypertension. – 2014. – № 32. – P. 324.https://repo.knmu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/7660Obesity has been consistently associated with hypertension and increased cardiovascular risk. BMI as a measure of obesity is a good predictor of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, cardiovascular mortality seems to be better predicted by abdominal or central obesity in addition to BMI. Aim of the study: to investigate apelin’s activity in patients with essential hypertension with obesity according to the type of obesity.enessential hypertensionapelinArticle