|
KMID : 1234920040040010033
|
|
Journal of Korean Oriental Association for Study of Obesity
2004 Volume.4 No. 1 p.33 ~ p.43
|
|
|
Correlation study between Obesity and Cardiovascular Risk Factors
|
|
Cho Tae-Young
Jo Hyun-Chol
Hong Seo-Young
Song Yun-Kyung
Lim Hyung-Ho
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
Background: Recently obesity has become a social problem in all over the world including Korea. It is known that obesity is closely related with cardiovascular disease. Many studies are carrying out in the relation between several obesity indices, such as body mass index(BMI), waist-circumference(WC), body fat percent and risk factors of cardiovascular disease.
Objective: This study was done in order to investigate correlation of obesity and cardiovascular risk factors.
Method: We gathered totally 138 subjects who have taken health screening test in university hospital. With the exception of 40 abnormal cases on current illness and laboratory study, 98 healthy cases were analysed. We divided the groups as normal, overweight, obese group according to body mass index and investigated the relationship between obesity based on body mass index(BMI) and cardiovascular risk factors. And investigated the relationship between each cardiovascular risk factor and body mass index, waist-hip ratio, body fat percent.
Results: With the exception of blood pressure, other lab data such as total cholesterol, triglycerid, glucose were significantly different between the three groups divided by body mass index. And Correlation coefficient of cardiovascular risk factors with body mass index, waist-hip ratio, body fat precent were acquired.
Conclusion: We have concluded that the body mass index and waist-hip ratio body fat precent were predictive factors cardiovascular disease.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
Body mass index(BMI), waist-hip ratio(WHR), body fat percent, cardiovascular risk factor
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
|
|