The article deals with the question of the arterial hypertension grade influence on the levels of pro-inflammatory interleukin-6 and adropin in hypertensive patients. Considering the relationship between hypertension and obesity and diabetes mellitus type 2, it was important to determine the levels of inflammatory markers in patients with isolated hypertension and in patients with concomitant hypertension, obesity and diabetes, depending on the degree of blood pressure. The purpose of the work was to reveal an influence of the grade of arterial hypertension on inflammation indicators depending on the presence of concomitant pathologists. Material and methods. The study involved 127 patients with hypertension of stage II, 1-2nd degree, 42% men, the average age was 61.9 ± 6.1 years. Patients were divided into groups depending on the degree of hypertension: the first consisted of 68 patients with grade 1 arterial hypertension; the second, 59 patients with grade II hypertension, each group being divided into 3 subgroups: the 1st – with isolated course of hypertension, the 2nd – combination of hypertension with obesity, and the 3rd – polymorbid hypertensive patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes. Results and discussion. The study results showed that there is a general pattern for all groups in the form of elevated levels of pro-inflammatory interleukin-6 in patients with hypertension compared to control. At the same time, the difference when comparing control and isolated course of hypertension of I grade was unreliable (p>0.05). In the group of patients with isolated arterial hypertension, the level of adropin in patients with II grade of hypertension was significantly lower than the control group, but was not significant in case of comparison I grade with control group (p>0.05). In patients with both grades I and II hypertension when combined with diabetes mellitus and obesity, difference of adropin levels achieved the values of reliability compared to control group (p<0.01). There were no statistically significant differences in the levels of interleukin-6 and adropin between grade I and II of arterial hypertension, except for the group of patients with isolated hypertension, where this difference turned out to be significant (p <0.05). Conclusions. The degree of increase in hypertension affects the concentrations of adropin and interleukin-6, and this effect is more pronounced in an isolated course of hypertension, while in patients with arterial hypertension in combination with diabetes and obesity, this effect is not so significant. This difference may be determined by the additional potentiation effect of obesity and diabetes on inflammatory markers.
Keywords: inflammation, arterial hypertension, obesity, diabetes mellitus, adropin
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