Hypertension and the influence of the waist circumference and the body mass index A study in non-teaching staff of government and private schools of Warangal, A.P., India
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Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2013 in the subject Pharmacology, grade: A, , course: Pharm. D, language: English, abstract: This study was performed in the department of pharmacy practice clinical research centers of MGM hospitals; Warangal in 2013. The Study group includes 150 subjects of non-teaching staff members of government and private school of Warangal. There were 44 women and 106 men. At the point of entry into the study group of all the study subjects written informed consent from before stating of research work.
Data was collected by trained Pharm D and M. Pharmacy paramedical students. The exclusion criterion was the co-existence of any other serious elements. A total number of 32 subjects were found to be normotensive in which 25 (17%) were men and 7 (5%) were women. Overall, 26 subjects were found to be pre-hypertensives whereas, 20 (13%) were men. A total number of 8 (5%) subject were found to be hypertensive of which 6(4%) men and 2 (1.3%) women.
Our results highlighted that the waist circumference seems to have a strong association with the risk of hypertension, especially among men than women. In future studies should investigate lipid profile of study subjects to correlate hypertension management regardless of gender or age.
Hypertension is a major public health problem world-wide and is one of the risk factors for coronary artery disease. The objective of the present study was to determine the relative role of abdominal fat accumulation on the relationship between excess body weight, and high blood pressure among men and women of non-teaching staff members of public school of Warangal.
Data was collected by trained Pharm D and M. Pharmacy paramedical students. The exclusion criterion was the co-existence of any other serious elements. A total number of 32 subjects were found to be normotensive in which 25 (17%) were men and 7 (5%) were women. Overall, 26 subjects were found to be pre-hypertensives whereas, 20 (13%) were men. A total number of 8 (5%) subject were found to be hypertensive of which 6(4%) men and 2 (1.3%) women.
Our results highlighted that the waist circumference seems to have a strong association with the risk of hypertension, especially among men than women. In future studies should investigate lipid profile of study subjects to correlate hypertension management regardless of gender or age.
Hypertension is a major public health problem world-wide and is one of the risk factors for coronary artery disease. The objective of the present study was to determine the relative role of abdominal fat accumulation on the relationship between excess body weight, and high blood pressure among men and women of non-teaching staff members of public school of Warangal.
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