LEP, leptin, 3952

N. diseases: 931; N. variants: 15
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Subjects with stage I hypertension had significantly higher plasma leptin levels than normotensive subjects. 9832173 1998
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 Biomarker group BEFREE While plasma angiotensinogen and blood pressure were positively correlated only in subjects with a positive family history of hypertension (r=0.33, P< 0.05), plasma leptin was related to blood pressure in both groups (r=0.26, P=0.01). 9814618 1998
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 Biomarker group BEFREE These results suggest a role for leptin in obesity-related hypertension, especially in adolescents. 9886890 1998
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Genetic markers at the leptin (OB) locus are not significantly linked to hypertension in African Americans. 9622134 1998
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 Biomarker group BEFREE Interaction between leptin and sympathetic nervous system in hypertension. 10981165 2000
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 Biomarker group BEFREE When BMI and leptin are elevated, increased blood pressure is found only with the most prevalent LEPR genotype at codons 109 and 223, whereas variants of this receptor seem to protect from hypertension. 10999797 2000
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 AlteredExpression group LHGDN Familial obesity, sympathetic activation and blood pressure level. 11800057 2001
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 GeneticVariation group BEFREE The leptin gene polymorphism was associated with hypertension independent of obesity. 12050272 2002
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 Biomarker group CTD_human The leptin gene polymorphism was associated with hypertension independent of obesity. 12050272 2002
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 Biomarker group LHGDN Relationship between changes in serum leptin levels and blood pressure after weight loss. 12484512 2002
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 Biomarker group BEFREE Collectively, our data suggest the pathophysiologic and therapeutic implication of leptin in obesity-related insulin resistance and hypertension. 11872379 2002
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 Biomarker group BEFREE Leptin, an adipocyte product, has been shown to play a role in obesity-related hypertension and in vitro studies demonstrated a biologic interaction between leptin and TGF-beta1. 12219869 2002
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 GeneticVariation group BEFREE We found no association among hypertension, BMI, and leptin levels with beta3-adrenergic receptor genotypes. 14739355 2004
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 AlteredExpression group BEFREE The evidence of linkage for leptin levels is consistent with prior linkage analyses for cholesterol, hypertension and other metabolic phenotypes. 15611783 2005
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 Biomarker group BEFREE Growing evidence suggests that concentration of the adipocytokines leptin and adiponectin may be affected by risk of hypertension during pregnancy. 16785148 2006
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 Biomarker group CTD_human Serum leptin levels correlation with high blood pressure in adult females. 16827954 2006
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Lack of association between the tetranucleotide repeat polymorphism in the 3'-flanking region of the leptin gene and hypertension in severely obese patients. 17114907 2006
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 GeneticVariation group LHGDN [Leptin, leptin gene, leptin gene receptor polymorphisms and pregnancy]. 18050615 2007
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 Biomarker group BEFREE In established hypertension, elevated CRP was associated with increased BP, BMI, insulin, HOMA (index of insulin resistance), leptin, triglycerides and norepinephrine. 17211240 2007
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 Biomarker group LHGDN Hyperleptinemia is associated with hypertension in Japanese males. 18596833 2008
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 GeneticVariation group BEFREE To examine the association of a common -2548G/A (rs7799039) promoter variant of the human leptin gene (LEP) with obesity or body mass index (BMI) and its associated phenotypes such as blood pressure variability and the prevalence of hypertension in a sample of the Tunisian population. 18923972 2008
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Our results showing that higher blood pressure levels were found with the most prevalent -2548G>A genotype, whereas patients with the AA genotype seemed to be protected from hypertension, indicate that the -2548G>A polymorphism of LEP appears to be an important mediator of obesity hypertension. 19229195 2009
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Our findings suggest that LEP gene variants could be related to depression and associated co-morbidities such as hypertension. 19382181 2009
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 AlteredExpression group LHGDN We identified significant associations between LEPTIN single nucleotide polymorphisms with blood pressure and hypertension, but in postmenopausal women only. 19204185 2009
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 AlteredExpression group BEFREE There are several known factors implicating this association, e.g. high blood pressure leads to remodeling of the carotid arterial wall, to its stiffness and to a diminished activation of baroreceptors; leptin released from a fatty tissue activates the sympathetic nervous system etc. 19093712 2009