TY - BOOK AU - Marwa Fathi Ahmed AU - Hanan Hosni Ahmed , AU - Hebatallah Mostafa , AU - Mohamed Ali Abdelhafez , TI - A possible relationship between atrial natriuretic factor and serum leptin in obesity-associated hypertension / PY - 2009/// CY - Cairo : PB - Marwa Fathi Ahmed , KW - Hypertension KW - Leptin KW - Obesity N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Medical Biochemistry; Issued also as CD N2 - Obesity is considered a world health problem where its incidence and prevalence are rising steadily along with several conditions associated with it such as hypertension diabetes dyslipidemia atherosclerosis and chronic renal failure . Among these hypertension has been observed in roughly 50% of obese individuls which has led researchers to consider obesity as one of the most common causes of hypertension UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -