Volume : 7, Issue : 12, December - 2018

Anthropometric Analysis of Subjects of Hypertension in Sub-Himalayan Region

Inderamohan Bisht, Suman Yadav, Vishal Kalia, Sandeep Kumar Goyal

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:&#10;200%"><b><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&#10;&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Introduction:</span></b><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;&#10;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-font-weight:&#10;bold"> </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;background:white">In India, Hypertension (HT) has emerged as a leading risk factor for mortality.&nbsp;The burden of hypertension in India is expected to almost double from 118&thinsp;million in 2000 to 213.5 million by 2025. </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;&#10;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Objective:</span></b><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;&#10;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;background:white;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> Anthropometric analysis of the Sub-Himalayan population suffering from HT with calculation of the cut-off point to predict HT. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Methodology:</b> </span><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;color:black;&#10;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Cross sectional study was carried out on 63 healthy and 51 hypertensives. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Results:</b></span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&#10;&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;letter-spacing:.15pt;&#10;mso-fareast-language:EN-IN"> The waist circumference (WC), waist to height ratio (WHtR) and body mass index (BMI) cut-off point to predict hypertension was found to be 93.5cm, 0.54 and 24.58kg/m² in men and 88.5cm, 0.59 and 25.3kg/m² in females respectively.</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;&#10;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;&#10;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Conclusion</span></b><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">:</span><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;&#10;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;letter-spacing:.15pt;mso-fareast-language:&#10;EN-IN"> </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;&#10;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;&#10;mso-fareast-language:EN-IN">BMI is considered as the best indicator to predict HT in males with a cut-off point of 24.58kg/m² and in females, WHtR was found to be the best indicator to predict HT with a cut-off point of 0.59. </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;color:black;mso-themecolor:&#10;text1;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>