Sympathetic Neural Activation in Visceral Obesity

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Leptin Acts in the Forebrain to Differentially Influence Baroreflex Control of Lumbar, Renal, and Splanchnic Sympathetic Nerve Activity and Heart Rate

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Does Obesity Induce Resistance to the Long-Term Cardiovascular and Metabolic Actions of Melanocortin 3/4 Receptor Activation?

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Vascular endothelial function masks increased sympathetic vasopressor activity in rats with metabolic syndrome

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Vasopressin V1a Receptor Polymorphism and Interval Walking Training Effects in Middle-Aged and Older People

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Sympathetic Overactivity, Endothelial Dysfunction, Inflammation, and Metabolic Abnormalities Cluster in Grade III (World Health Organization) Obesity

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Adiposity, fat-free mass and incident heart failure in 500 000 individuals

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Centrally Administered Resistin Enhances Sympathetic Nerve Activity to the Hindlimb but Attenuates the Activity to Brown Adipose Tissue

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Fat Mass is Negatively Associated with Muscle Strength and Jump Test Performance

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Race and sex differences in cardiovascular autonomic regulation

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Differential sympathetic outflow to adipose depots is required for visceral fat loss in response to calorie restriction

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Sympathetic activity in obesity: a brief review of methods and supportive data

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Central mechanisms in sympathetic nervous dysregulation in obesity

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Not all obese subjects of multiethnic origin are at similar risk for developing hypertension and type 2 diabetes

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Lower urinary tract symptoms, benign prostatic hyperplasia, and obesity

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Adipokines: Deciphering the cardiovascular signature of adipose tissue

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Reactive oxygen species and the central nervous system in salt‐sensitive hypertension: possible relationship with obesity‐induced hypertension

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Autonomic Regulation of the Association between Exercise and Diabetes

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Effect of Weight Gain on Cardiac Autonomic Control During Wakefulness and Sleep

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Fatness is related to blunted vascular stress responsivity, independent of cardiorespiratory fitness in normal and overweight men

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The global epidemic of obesity: Are we becoming more sympathetic?

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Central Resistin Enhances Renal Sympathetic Nerve Activity via Phosphatidylinositol 3‐Kinase but Reduces the Activity to Brown Adipose Tissue via Extracellular Signal‐Regulated Kinase 1/2

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Clinical and Genetic Features of Patients With Type 2 Diabetes and Renal Glycosuria

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Sympathetic neural reactivity to mental stress differs in black and non-Hispanic white adults

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Blood Pressure Control at Rest and during Exercise in Obese Children and Adults

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Diminished adrenal sensitivity and ACTH efficacy in obese premenopausal women

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Cardiovascular Regulation Profile Predicts Developmental Trajectory of BMI and Pediatric Obesity

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Comparable Attenuation of Sympathetic Nervous System Activity in Obese Subjects with Normal Glucose Tolerance, Impaired Glucose Tolerance, and Treatment Naïve Type 2 Diabetes following Equivalent Weight Loss

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The innervation of the kidney in renal injury and inflammation: a cause and consequence of deranged cardiovascular control

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Baroreflex sensitivity is impaired in essential hypertensives with central obesity

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Sites and sources of sympathoexcitation in obese male rats: role of brain insulin

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Central nervous determination of food storage—a daily switch from conservation to expenditure: implications for the metabolic syndrome

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Association of Serum Leptin Levels With Progression of Diabetic Kidney Disease in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes

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Adipocytes initiate an adipose-cerebral-peripheral sympathetic reflex to induce insulin resistance during high-fat feeding

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