ArticleFrontiers in endocrinology2025
Associations of triglyceride-glucose index and metabolic score for insulin resistance with various hypertension phenotypes in children and adolescents: results from the 2017 China nutrition and health surveillance.
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- The insulin resistance-systemic vascular resistance-isolated diastolic hypertension axis: a metabolic framework for an overlooked hypertension phenotype.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Review
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Background: The prevalence of hypertension in children is rising globally, with early-onset high blood pressure linked to future cardiovascular risk. Identifying early risk markers beyond obesity and high salt intake is necessary. Although cost-effective indicators of insulin resistance (IR), such as TyG and METS-IR, have been associated with new-onset hypertension in adults, their links with pediatric hypertension, particularly specific phenotypes of hypertension remain unclear. Methods: 12,087 individuals aged 7-17 years from the 2017 China National Nutrition and Health Surveillance of Children and Lactating Women were included. Hypertension was defined as systolic blood pressure (SBP) and/or diastolic blood pressure (DBP) ≥95th percentile for sex, age, and height. Isolated systolic hypertension (ISH), defined as SBP ≥95th and DBP <95th percentile. Isolated diastolic hypertension (IDH), defined as DBP ≥95th and SBP <95th percentile. Systolic-diastolic hypertension (SDH), defined as both SBP and DBP ≥95th percentile. The associations of TyG and METS-IR with hypertension phenotypes were investigated using multivariable logistic regression and restricted cubic spline regression. Results: TyG and METS-IR were positively associated with hypertension and all its phenotypes after multivariable adjustment. Treated as continuous variables, each 1-unit rise in TyG corresponds to 44%, 47%, and 61% higher chance of ISH, IDH, and SDH, respectively (odds ratio [OR]: 1.44, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.31-1.59; OR: 1.47, 95%CI: 1.21-1.79; OR: 1.61, 95%CI: 1.35-1.91); each 1-unit rise in METS-IR corresponds to 10%, 6%, and 12% higher chance of ISH, IDH, and SDH, respectively (OR: 1.10, 95%CI: 1.09-1.12; OR: 1.06, 95%CI: 1.03-1.08; OR: 1.12, 95%CI: 1.10-1.14). Consistent positive associations were observed across different subgroups for ISH and SDH, whereas this association for IDH was not statistically significant in several subgroups (e.g., age ≥12 years, sufficient sleep, daily exercise). TyG and METS-IR exhibited linear dose-response relationships with all hypertension phenotypes (p-nonlinear >0.10). Conclusion: TyG and METS-IR show strong relationships with three kinds of hypertension phenotypes. They are promising markers that may contribute to the primary prevention of hypertension in pediatric populations.
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