Title : Is the endogenous digitalis-like factor the link between hypertension and metabolic disorders as diabetes mellitus, obesity and acromegaly?

Pub. Date : 1990

PMID : 2225723






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1 In this review, the authors discuss the hypothesis that, in metabolic diseases such as diabetes mellitus, obesity and acromegaly, the sodium retention and volume expansion, possibly due to exaggerated sodium intake, and/or exogenously induced peripheral hyperinsulinemia and high levels of growth hormone, could trigger a sustained release of EDLF, which in turn increases the blood pressure. Sodium growth hormone 1 Homo sapiens