Insulin levels are consistently related to blood pressure, obesity, and blood lipids. Insulin level correlation with sodium-lithium countertransport is limited to only one available study done in white, normotensive, predominantly normal weight women aged 45-52. The relationship between cellular sodium-hydrogen exchange activity and hypertension has been studied in rats and in a small study in humans. Correlation of this transport with weight, fasting insulin and lipid levels, and sodium-lithium countertransport was not available in 1989.