Albuminuria is not a correlate of hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance in glucose-tolerant essential hypertensive men

Hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance are frequently claimed to correlate with, and possibly even cause an increase in urinary albumin excretion (UAE) in essential hypertensive patients, but the evidence on this topic is controversial. To achieve a better understanding of this still unsettled issue, we evaluated whether UAE tends to be abnormally elevated in hypertensive patients characterised by marked insulin resistance (IR). 123...