| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - t mechanism of how obesity is a cause of hypertension is unknown, many theories have been suggested such as activation of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system, oxidative stress, sympathetic overdrive, chronic vascular inflammation and endothelial dysfunction, which leads to structural changes such as thickening of the intima and media of the vessel wall [3, 4].
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