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Leptin, obesity and hypertension: importance of nursing actions

The objective of this systematic review was to retrieve topics of relevance to the implications of leptin in modulating blood pressure and in the genesis, prevention and treatment of hypertension associated with obesity. Considering the hormone as a common link between the two pathological conditions, were identified actions to reduce the leptinemia, proposed and discussed in the literature. It was found that nursing lacks production of knowledge to subsidize the assistance to hypertensive obesity that present alterations in serum leptin. Were described signs and multifactorials symptoms dynamically interrelated and paradoxical in the manifestation of the clinical case studied, with effective management interventions in caring for those clients.

Leptin; Blood pressure; Obesity; Hypertension


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