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Table of Content - Volume 6 Issue 3 - June 2017
Association of waist and hip circumferences and BMI with essential hypertension in young
Padmakar Shingade1, Rahul Patil2*, Santosh Mali3, Nandakumar Patil4
1,2,4Assistant Professor, 3Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Government Medical College, Miraj and PVPGH, Sangli, Maharashtra, INDIA. Email: rahool.90999@gmail.com
Abstract Obesity is one of the most important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases (CVD) which includes hypertension. Essential Hypertension itself is a risk factor for CVD. Waist circumference (W.C.), waist to hip (W/H) ratio are more sensitive indicator than body mass index (BMI) in determining the risk of developing essential hypertension in young population in our vicinity which in turn increases the risk of CVD. We are determining what indicator is most sensitive risk factor for hypertension in young population coming to tertiary care centre in our vicinity. Key Words: Body Mass Indec (BMI), Cardiovascular diseases (CVD), Hypertension (HTN), Obesity. |
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