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Impact of Plasma Soluble Prorenin Receptor in Obese and Type 2 Diabetic Patients
In Brief
An observational study for Obesity and 2 related conditions. Completed, enrolled 10 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
Obesity increases the risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus, high blood pressure, and mortality. Obesity is a major health problem in the United States, especially in the Deep South regions. Obesity increases the risk for T2DM, the occurrence of hypertension, and mortality; but the efficacy of long-term weight loss medications has been disappointing. There are three options available for patients who want to lose weight: lifestyle modification, pills, or weight loss by bariatric surgery. When we compare the three options available, bariatric surgery is the most effective method to lose weight at present. Bariatric surgery allows patients lose the most weight, be able to sustain the weight reduction over time and, more importantly, diabetes mellitus and other cardiovascular risk factors significantly improve. Understanding the link among obesitydiabetes-hypertension is crucial in order to develop new therapeutic targets to decrease CVD morbidity and mortality. There is less prevalence of coronary artery disease (CAD) in premenopausal women than in men, but, once initiated, the morbidity and mortality due to CAD in women is worse than in men, thus highlighting this sex difference in CVD. Indeed, women with diabetes exhibit a higher risk of myocardial infarction and stroke mortality than men, compared to people without diabetes. In obese subjects, there is inappropriate activation of the systemic and adipose renin-angiotensin system. The prorenin receptor is a molecule expressed in various tissues including fat tissue and part of it, the soluble prorenin receptor, can be secreted into the blood. The prorenin receptor is part of a very important system that regulates blood pressure and fat in our body, the renin-angiotensin system. In this prospective observational human pilot study, we will determine whether the adipose tissue is the major supplier of soluble prorenin receptor levels in the plasma of obese patients and the relationship between blood soluble prorenin receptor and diabetes mellitus, obesity, high blood pressure and other important cardiovascular risk factors. Outcomes from this study will allow a better understanding of the complex factors that link obesity, diabetes mellitus, and other cardiovascular risk factors and designing better therapeutic alternatives to improve patient's health, particularly in obese diabetic women.