{"id":135975,"date":"2022-02-23T07:22:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T15:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/long-standing-enigma-finally-cracked-link-discovered-between-high-blood-pressure-and-diabetes"},"modified":"2022-02-23T07:22:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T15:22:59","slug":"long-standing-enigma-finally-cracked-link-discovered-between-high-blood-pressure-and-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/long-standing-enigma-finally-cracked-link-discovered-between-high-blood-pressure-and-diabetes","title":{"rendered":"Long-Standing Enigma Finally Cracked \u2014 Link Discovered Between High Blood Pressure and Diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/long-standing-enigma-finally-cracked-link-discovered-between-high-blood-pressure-and-diabetes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The long-standing enigma of why so many patients suffering with high blood pressure (known as hypertension) also have diabetes (high blood sugar) has finally been cracked by an international team led by the universities of Bristol, UK, and Auckland, New Zealand.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The important new discovery has shown that a small protein cell glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) couples the body\u2019s control of blood sugar <em>and<\/em> blood pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Julian Paton, a senior author, and Director of Manaaki M\u00e3nawa \u2013 The Centre for Heart Research at the University of Auckland, said: \u201cWe\u2019ve known for a long time that hypertension and diabetes are inextricably linked and have finally discovered the reason, which will now inform new treatment strategies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long-standing enigma of why so many patients suffering with high blood pressure (known as hypertension) also have diabetes (high blood sugar) has finally been cracked by an international team led by the universities of Bristol, UK, and Auckland, New Zealand. The important new discovery has shown that a small protein cell glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}