1Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, Thanjavur Medical College, Thanjavur
2Professor and Head of the Department Department of Physiology, Thanjavur Medical College, Thanjavur
*Corresponding Author: R. Vinodha, Professor and Head of the department, Department of Physiology, Thanjavur Medical College, Thanjavur
Online published on 25 July, 2019.
Obesity is a huge problem because it leads to so many complications such as accelerated atherosclerosis, increased incidence of gallbladder disease, type-2 diabetes mellitus, insulin resistance and many carcinomas. One of the major causes for obesity is excess energy intake in food over energy expenditure. Excess weight gain is an important risk factor for hypertension. Hypertension target major organs of the body leading to coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, kidney damage etc. The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of obesity (Body Mass Index(BMI) and Waist Circumference(WC)) on Blood pressure.
Ethical committee approval was obtained before starting the study. For this study clinical history was recorded and physical examination including body weight, height, waist&hip circumferences were measured. Waist hip ratio(WHR)was calculated. Blood Pressure was recorded.
Obesity was statistically associated with increase in both systolic & diastolic blood pressure.
This study revealed that abdominal obesity &increase in BMI were significantly associated with increase in blood pressure.
Body Mass Index, Waist Circumference, WHR, Hypertension
