{"id":229174,"date":"2026-01-16T09:26:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/how-fat-type-shapes-hypertension-risk"},"modified":"2026-01-16T09:26:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:26:58","slug":"how-fat-type-shapes-hypertension-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/how-fat-type-shapes-hypertension-risk","title":{"rendered":"How Fat Type Shapes Hypertension Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-fat-type-shapes-hypertension-risk2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Too much fat can raise blood pressure, but the type matters more than the amount.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Rockefeller University uncovered how thermogenic fat keeps blood vessels flexible by shutting down a vessel-stiffening enzyme.<\/p>\n<p>Read more.<\/p>\n<p>Promoting brown fat activity could counteract hypertension by reshaping the molecular signals that govern vascular stiffness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too much fat can raise blood pressure, but the type matters more than the amount. Researchers at Rockefeller University uncovered how thermogenic fat keeps blood vessels flexible by shutting down a vessel-stiffening enzyme. Read more. Promoting brown fat activity could counteract hypertension by reshaping the molecular signals that govern vascular stiffness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229174","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}