Association Between Hypertension and Obesity: A Prospective Study at a Tertiary Care Hospital
Journal Title: International Journal of Medical Research Professionals - Year 2017, Vol 3, Issue 6
Abstract
Background: It has been seen that subjects with hypertension have two folds higher risk of developing coronary artery disease and four times higher risk of congestive heart failure when compared to subjects with normal blood pressure. When obesity is associated with abnormal lipid levels, hypertension or glucose intolerance it leads to a metabolic syndrome and the risk of cardiovascular disease rises several times. The present study was aimed to evaluate the association between obesity and hypertension. Materials and Methods: The cross sectional prospective survey was conducted in the Department of General Medicine, Rama Medical College Hospital & Research Centre, Pilkhuwa, Hapur, Uttar Pradesh, India. The study was conducted for duration of 6 months. The amount of physical activity of every subject was also recorded. Waist and hip measurements of all the subjects were obtained by a measuring tape having width of 1.0 cm. Individuals were made to stand upright and wear minimal clothing as possible for recording of measurements. All the data was arranged in a tabulated form and analysed using SPSS software. Chi square test or fischer exact test were used for analysis. Probability value of less than 0.05 was regarded significant. Results: The study consisted of 200 subjects, out of these 50% (100) were males and 50% (100) were females. The mean age of the subjects was 39.25 +/- 19.51 years. The average waist-hip ratio was 0.99 ± 0.06 for men and 0.97 ± 0.07 for women. Waist circumference average was 98.7 cm ± 10.5 and 98.8 cm ± 10.4 for men and women, respectively. Conclusion: From the above study we can conclude that obesity acts as a significant risk factor for hypertension. The risk of obesity differs with the type of work, lifestyle habits, socioeconomic class and alcohol and smoking. Obese people tend to be hypertensive more frequently than non-obese subjects.
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Gagan Saxena, Bhupendra Singh, Vinod Kapoor
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- DOI 10.21276/ijmrp.2017.3.6.060
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