| pubmed-article:11121808 | pubmed:abstractText | In patients with essential hypertension, defects in both the metabolic and vascular actions of insulin have been described. Impaired microvascular function, a well-established abnormality in essential hypertension, may explain part of these defects. In the present study we investigated whether microvascular function is impaired in essential hypertension and relates to insulin's metabolic and vasodilatatory actions. | lld:pubmed |
