{"id":230162,"date":"2026-01-30T10:14:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/blood-vessels-under-pressure"},"modified":"2026-01-30T10:14:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:14:24","slug":"blood-vessels-under-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/blood-vessels-under-pressure","title":{"rendered":"Blood vessels under pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blood-vessels-under-pressure2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beige fat surrounding blood vessels actively works to keep high blood pressure in check, according to a new <i>Science<\/i> study in mice, promoting healthy vascular function even during obesity.<\/p>\n<p>The findings support the notion that therapeutic activation of thermogenic fat tissue could help reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more in this <i>Science <\/i>vPerspective.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A protein in perivascular fat cells protects mice against hypertension.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.aed9277#con1\"> Mandy O. J. Grootaert<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.aed9277#con2\"> Aernout Luttun<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.aed9277#tab-contributors\">Authors Info &amp; Affiliations<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Science<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/blood-vessels-under-pressure\">Continue reading \u201cBlood vessels under pressure\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beige fat surrounding blood vessels actively works to keep high blood pressure in check, according to a new Science study in mice, promoting healthy vascular function even during obesity. The findings support the notion that therapeutic activation of thermogenic fat tissue could help reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. Learn more in this Science vPerspective. [\u2026]<\/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-230162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230162","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=230162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}