Khatoon Akhtar Bano, Mumtaz Begum, Riaz Hussain.
Fasting blood level of insulin in non-obese and non-diabetic patients with essential hypertension.
Pak J Med Res Jan ;43(1):5-7.

Objective: This study was designed to investigate the serum insulin levels among hypertensive patients and to study the possible relation with blood pressure, BMI, cholesterol and triglycerides. Study Design: Comparative study. Methods: Twenty non - obese, non diabetic patients with essential hypertension and twenty normotensive controls were studied at the PMRC, Research Centre, F.J. Medical College, Lahore. Blood was drawn for serum insulin levels, Blood sugar, cholesterol and triglycerides after an overnight fast. Blood pressure and body mass index (BMI) were recorded and results analyzed by using SPSS Package. Results: Showed significantly high (P<0.001) levels of insulin (13.02 ± 1.95 mu/l) among the Hypertensives compared to controls (10.91 ± 1.45mu/l). A significant positive correlation was found (r = 0.439 & Sig. 0.05) between serum Insulin and Serum cholestrole. Correlation of serum Insulin with Diastolic blood pressure, triglycerides, BMI and blood sugar level was weakly negative and insignificant. Conclusion: It is concluded that serum insulin levels are significantly higher among Hypertensives and significantly correlated with serum cholesterol levels compared to controls.


USER COMMENTS

It is a professinally low-grade article. I have reviewd the full-text of this article and is full of flaws with irrelvant statements in the discussion section. Formula to calculate BMI (body mass index) as written in full-text article available at http://www.pmrc.org.pk/fasting.htm is icorrect. The correct formula is BMI= body weight in kg / height in metres² but not in cm as in the full-text article. The statement"A significant positive correlation was found (r = 0.439 & sig. 0.05)" does not indicate that this r value (correlation coefficinet)was calculated in which study groups (hypertensives or controls) indicating the poor knowledge of statistical analysis procedure that has revealed the professional plagiarism, fabrication, and dishonesty upon the part of professionally inefficient authors. HONESTY GROUP ... FIGHT AGAINS PLAGRIARISM
Posted by: honesty on Jul 2004

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