Key result
Higher BMI correlates with higher SBP in healthy young adults.
Why the study?
There is paucity of information on the variation in blood pressure and pulse rate parameters of normal individuals and their correlation with BMI.
Cross-Sectional (n=184)
No
Effect estimate: r = 0.241 (males) and r = 0.316 (females)
p-value: p=0.008 (males), 0.010 (females)
This study demonstrates a significant positive correlation between body mass index and blood pressure parameters in young adults.
May link BMI to BP parameters in young adults; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
The present study was done to find out the correlation between body mass index (BMI) and blood pressure, systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP); pulse pressure (PP) and mean arterial pressure (MAP) values.There is paucity of information on the variation in blood pressure and pulse rate parameters of normal individuals.The aim of the study was to assess the correlation between BMI and BP.The study was conducted in 184 MBBS 1 st year students.There were 119 male and 65 female students.In view of gender differences in autonomic regulation, data of male and female subjects were analyzed separately.We used analysis of variance to compare differences between Mean±SD, maximum, minimum values and Pearson correlations of BMI and blood pressure values.CONCLUSION: There is Mean±SD of blood pressure was higher in overweight subjects as compared to underweight subjects.A p value *0.05 and * 0.01 was considered statistically significant for both male as well as in female subjects.There was significant Pearson's correlation between BMI and BP in both male as well as in female subjects.
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Solanki et al. (2015) conducted a cross-sectional in Healthy young adults (n=184). Body Mass Index vs. Underweight and normal weight subjects was evaluated on Correlation between Body Mass Index and Systolic Blood Pressure (r = 0.241 (males) and r = 0.316 (females), p=0.008 (males), 0.010 (females)). Body mass index showed a statistically significant positive correlation with systolic blood pressure in both healthy male (r=0.241) and female (r=0.316) young adults.
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