HYPERTENSION, BODY BUILD AND OBESITY
1959 Volume 9 Issue 5 Pages 973-983
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1959 Volume 9 Issue 5 Pages 973-983
The relationship of the systolic blood pressure to the body build and obesity was studied on apparently healthy subjects over the age of 30. The present findings are based on data from the physical examination records of 1657 persons in several rural communities of Gunma Prefecture.
1) The incidence of hypertension and the mean blond pressure were generally higher in the overweight group, or large chest/height, and abdomen/ height groups than the others in each sex and age-group.
2) The incidence of hypotensive subjects and mean blood pressure tended to be lower in the underweight group, or small chest/ height, and abdomen/ height groups than the others in each sex and age-group. However, number of samples in the latter groups were insufficient for the statistical evaluation.
3) Further analysis leads to the impression that among three indices the abdomen/height ratio is more markedly correlate I with the blood pressure variations, when the other two factors held constant. It was inferred that “hypertension-chest/height relationship” (Robinson & Brucer) could be favorably rewritten in a form of “hypertension-abdomen/heght relationship”.
