1994 Volume 11 Pages 107-112
Obesity causes various sickness such as hyperlipoidemia, diabetic mellitus and hypercholesterolia. Obesity was judged by ideal body weight or body mass index (BMI) those were calculated with body weight and height. But these values did not reflect the body fat.
This present report was examined about the health condition of middle aged general public, and the relationship between total body fat (TBF % ) and the blood test values.
TBF % was measured by bioelectrorical impedance analysis method. Blood test was measured on Total Cholesterol, Red Blood Cell, Hematocrit, HDL-Cholesterol, Trigriceride Total Protein GOT, GPT, ALP, Y -GTP, ZTT, Blood Sugar and Blood Pressure. All tests were enforced in medical examination at Kita-ku in Kyoto city.
3152 persons were measured (male 811, female 2341). 90% of male and of female had some abnormal values in the blood test. Among normal subjests, 28. 5 % of female was judged as the obesity from TBF % data, whereas 13.7 % of male was judged as the fatness. Total Cholesterol, HDL-Cholesterol, Triglyceride, GOT, GPT, ALP, γ-GTP, Blood Sugar and Blood Pressure had the correlation with TBF %
