TNF and Hypertension: This picture of systemic inflammation is characterized by an increase in the circulating levels of acute-phase proteins, such as C-reactive protein, cytokines with inflammatory activity, such as tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), and interleukins such as interleukin (IL)-1 and IL-6, which are considered markers of systemic inflammation in hypertension [34,36,39,40,41].