Body Fat Percentage in a Vegetarian and Non-Vegetarian Population and Prevalence of Essential Hypertension and Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Comparative Investigation in Indian Population
Journal Title: International Journal of Medical Research Professionals - Year 2017, Vol 3, Issue 6
Abstract
Introduction: Body fat percentage (BFP) is more reliable method as compared to BMI for assessing the risk of developing disease. Essential hypertension and Type-2 diabetes mellitus are both associated with adiposity. We find out the association, of raised BFP levels in strict-vegetarians and comparatively analyzed with non-vegetarians in context to the indicated diseases. Materials and Methods: The present study included hypertensive patients as cases and normotensive individuals as controls. We carried out a population based, random and cross sectional study. Total N= 560 subjects (295 males and 265 females) were selected randomly – after screening, n= 310 from vegetarian population and n= 250 from non-vegetarian population. Chi squired p-values < 0.05 were considered significant. Results: The comparative analysis of the normal and raised levels of BFP among the vegetarian and non-vegetarian cohort generated a non-significant. Comparative analysis for the presence of the diabetes mellitus among both the vegetarian and non-vegetarian cohorts with raised BFP also gave a non-significant. Conclusion: Non-vegetarian cohorts showed a non-significant association to produce essential hypertension and type-2 diabetes mellitus.
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P. Leelakumari
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- DOI 10.21276/ijmrp.2017.3.6.002
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