Link between insulin resistance and hypertension: What is the evidence from evolutionary biology?
Insulin resistance and hypertension are considered as prototypical “diseases of civilization” that are manifested in the modern environment as plentiful food and sedentary life. The human propensity for insulin resistance and hypertension is a product, at least in part, of our evolutionary history....
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BioMed Central
2014
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3996172/ |