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<journal-id>0034-8376</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista de investigación clínica]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev. invest. clín.]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0034-8376</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S0034-83762023000500221</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.24875/ric.23000113</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Predictive Performance of Triglyceride-Glucose Index on Asymptomatic Multiple Organ Damage in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Hypertension]]></article-title>
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<surname><![CDATA[Kivrak]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Ahmet]]></given-names>
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<surname><![CDATA[Yildirim]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Alp]]></given-names>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,D&#305;&#351;kap&#305; Y&#305;ld&#305;r&#305;m Beyazit Training and Research Hospital Department of Cardiology ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Ankara ]]></addr-line>
<country>Turkey</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Kirsehir Training and Research Hospital Department of Cardiology ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Kirsehir ]]></addr-line>
<country>Turkey</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>10</month>
<year>2023</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>10</month>
<year>2023</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>75</volume>
<numero>5</numero>
<fpage>221</fpage>
<lpage>232</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0034-83762023000500221&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0034-83762023000500221&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0034-83762023000500221&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[ABSTRACT  Background: Insulin resistance (IR) contributes to the development of hypertension and mediated organ damage (HMOD) through various mechanisms.  Objectives: The objective of the study was to assess the diagnostic performance of the triglyceride-glucose (TyG) index, a surrogate marker of IR, in predicting the presence and severity of HMOD in newly diagnosed untreated hypertensive patients from an academic training and research hospital.  Methods: The study included 438 patients with newly diagnosed, untreated hypertension. The control group comprised normotensive individuals matched on a 1:1 ratio based on age, gender, body mass index, and smoking using the nearest neighbor method. The presence of HMOD was defined by renal damage (microalbuminuria &gt; 30 mg/day or proteinuria &gt; 150 mg/day), vascular damage (carotid intima-media thickness &gt; 0.9 mm or presence of plaque), or cardiac damage (left ventricular mass index &gt; 95 g/m2 in women and &gt; 115 g/m2 in men). The severity of HMOD was considered as single-, two-, or triple-organ damage.  Results: TyG index values were higher in the hypertensive group than the normotensive group. An increased TyG index was independently associated with HMOD (OR: 1.33, p &lt; 0.001). The TyG index exhibited gradually increasing threshold values for distinguishing patients with single-organ HMOD (&gt; 8.8 with 77.8% sensitivity and 74.3% specificity), two-organ HMOD (&gt; 9.1 with 77.6% sensitivity and 71.4% specificity), and triple-organ HMOD (&gt; 9.4 with 71.5% sensitivity and 87.7% specificity).  Conclusions: In newly diagnosed hypertensive patients, the TyG index exhibits significant diagnostic performance in predicting multiple-organ damage beyond the presence of HMOD. Since the detection of multiple-organ HMOD requires a multidisciplinary approach, the TyG index can serve as a simple and inexpensive screening tool.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Atherosclerosis]]></kwd>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Insulin resistance]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Triglyceride-glucose index]]></kwd>
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