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Obesity and high blood pressure are commonly associated. A study in mice now shows that hypothalamic inflammatory pathways may be the link connecting these two disorders and a potential target to uncouple obesity-related hypertension from weight gain (pages 883–887).

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Figure 1: Overview of the suggested pathways by which obesity and hypertension are linked.

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  1. Michael H. Humphreys is in the Division of Nephrology, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.,

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Humphreys, M. The brain splits obesity and hypertension. Nat Med 17, 782–783 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0711-782

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