Abstract
The link between abdominal fat distribution and insulin related cardiovascular risk factors in black and white female hypertensives who were on drug treatment for hypertension was investigated with computed tomography scan, sonar, anthropometric measurements and blood testing. Fasting blood samples were tested for: insulin, glucose, triglyceride, apoprotein B, apoprotein A1, total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, lipoprotein a, uric acid, fibrinogen and plasminogen activity. Albumin and creatinine were measured in urine samples. Black subjects were slightly more obese than their white counterparts as judged from their body mass indexes (34.39±6.60 vs. 32.08±6.77 kg/m2, p
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