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KMID : 0388420000100010111
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Konkuk Journal of Medical Sciences
2000 Volume.10 No. 1 p.111 ~ p.118
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Relations between Obesity Indices and Smoking, Alcohol, Lipid, Blood Glucose and Blood Pressure
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Lee Jae-Keun
Yu Byung-Yeon
Cho Dong-Young
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Abstract
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It is well known that obesity is an important cause of risk factor of cardiovascular disease, emphasized by many studies and cardiovascular disease has been found to correlate not only to the extent of obesity, but also the fat distribution of the individual. Recently, focusing on obesity of the abdomen, we were able to evaluate the significance of obesity indices by examining correlations between these indices and the risk factors of cardiovascular disease. ,
Three hundred sixty four health examined persons through out-patient department of family medicine, Seoul hospital of Konkuk medical center were chosen as subjects of this study but finally one hundred twenty five examined persons were selected. The auther analysed correlations between obesity indices and cardiovascular risk factors by measuring serum lipid levels, fasting blood glucose levels and blood pressure that are thought to be risk factors of cardiovascular diseases and obesity indices were calculated using anthropometric measurements.
The abdominal obesity indices and risk factors of cardiovascular disease, the levels of total cholesterol in the serum, fasting blood glucose levels, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, increased significantly according to age and there was a significant difference in the abdominal obesity indices according to drinking and smoking habits. Systolic and diastolic pressures had significant differences according to the presence or absence of an alcohol drinking history. There were negative correlatons between HDL-cholesterol and obesity indices (r = -0.248, -0.215, -0.204, -0.256, -0.201) and the weakest correlaton was found or noted between fasting blood glucose level and sagittal diameter.
Among obesity indices, sagittal diameter and sagittal diameter per height may be important prognostic indicators or risk factors of cardiovascular disease.
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KEYWORD
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obesity index, abdominal obesity, sagittal diameter, sagittal diameter per height
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