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 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 Leptin in association with common variants of MC3R mediates hypertension. 24487982 2014
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 Biomarker group BEFREE Leptin is a hormone made by adipocytes and associated with hypertension, inflammation, and coronary artery disease. 27666945 2017
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 Biomarker group BEFREE Leptin appears as a new direct regulator of adrenal aldosterone production and leptin-mediated aldosterone production is a novel candidate mechanism underlying obesity-associated hypertension, particularly in females. 29135585 2018
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 Biomarker group BEFREE Leptin is associated with cardiovascular risk factors (e.g. hypertension, insulin resistance, kidney disease and excess body weight). 31691260 2019
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 Biomarker group CTD_human ACE2 activation by xanthenone prevents leptin-induced increases in blood pressure and proteinuria during pregnancy in Sprague-Dawley rats. 25205467 2014
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 Biomarker group BEFREE Adipokines, including adiponectin and leptin, and renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) contribute to hypertension. 31236708 2019
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 Biomarker group BEFREE Animal studies have shown that leptin mediates the association between obesity and hypertension. 30896657 2019
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 Biomarker group CTD_human Central Leptin and Tumor Necrosis Factor-α (TNFα) in Diurnal Control of Blood Pressure and Hypertension. 27226618 2016
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Chronic hyperinsulinemia due to insulin resistance, high plasma levels of leptin, and/or obstructive sleep apnea may be responsible for sympathetic overactivity in obesity-related hypertension. 31087350 2019
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Class I/I genotypes of leptin showed significantly high risk for developing hypertension irrespective of obesity. 24171506 2014
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 Compared to controls, patients presented significantly lower levels of cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDLc), LDLc, oxLDL, and intermediate and small HDL and higher triglycerides, CRP, adiponectin, large HDL, very-low-density lipoprotein (VLDL), and intermediate-density lipoprotein- (IDL) B. Adiponectin levels correlated positively with large HDL and negatively with intermediate and small HDL, oxLDL/LDLc, and BMI; patients with DM (<i>n</i> = 17) and with DM+HT (<i>n</i> = 70), as compared to patients without DM or HT (<i>n</i> = 69) or only with HT (<i>n</i> = 38), presented significantly higher oxLDL, oxLDL/LDLc, and leptin and lower adiponectin. 30911344 2019
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Contrary to our expectations, even before leptin substitution, 1 patient with biallelic leptin receptor gene variants and 4 patients with leptin deficiency had been suffering from hypertension. 31357197 2019
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 Biomarker group BEFREE Finally, it might be postulated that alterations of mitochondrial dynamics in white adipose tissue could contribute to the development and maintenance of hypertension in obesity situations through leptin overproduction. 28233236 2017
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Furthermore, the Gln223Arg polymorphism was significantly associated with plasma leptin levels (p<0.001), while no correlations between Lys109Arg SNP and hypertension were found. 22293279 2012
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 Given that adipocytokines may play an important role in the pathophysiology of high blood pressure (HBP) and because related reports in children are scarce and controversial, we evaluated the relationship of leptin, resistin, tumor necrosis factor-α, interleukin-6, adiponectin, and interferon-γ with HBP.<b>Materials and Methods</b>. 31042407 2019
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 BEFREE Hence, central leptin employs TNFα to mediate the diurnal blood pressure elevation in physiology while enhancement of this mechanism can contribute to hypertension development. 27226618 2016
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 Biomarker group BEFREE Hence, neural control of blood pressure is mediated by a signaling network between leptin, TNFα, melanocortin, and glutamate and changes in dynamics due to central excess leptin and TNFα mediate the switch from normal physiology to obesity-related hypertension. 28419227 2017
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 Biomarker group BEFREE In addition to NPY-mediated energy homeostasis, leptin-melanocortin activation may be essential for metabolic disturbance-related hypertension. 31659606 2019
CUI: C0020538
Disease: Hypertensive disease
Hypertensive disease
0.600 Biomarker group BEFREE In comparison of controlled and uncontrolled hypertensive patients, leptin was significantly higher in uncontrolled hypertensive patients (p < 0.001).<b>Conclusion</b>: Comparing two groups of hypertensive and normotensive subjects, leptin is found to be positively correlated with hypertension in both genders. 30582364 2020