A single mechanism for hypertension, insulin resistance and immune suppression

Monday, June 30, 2008 - 07:07 in Health & Medicine

Many of the 75 million Americans with essential hypertension also develop diabetes and other complications in addition to their high blood pressure, and researchers have discovered a common molecular mechanism in a strain of rat that explains why such metabolic disorders arise together in mammals.

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