DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2019.v07i05.065

Pages: 2012-2016

Introduction: Body mass index (BMI) is positively associated with blood pressure (BP); this Association has critical implications for countries like Bangladesh, where hypertension is highly prevalent and obesity is increasing. A greater understanding of the association between BMI and BP is required to determine its effect and develop strategies to mitigate it. Objective: Association between body mass index and blood pressure in young adult students of BICH. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, data were collected at 1 time point from 99 young adults’ students aged (aged 18-32 years) from the department of physiology. The study was conducted between January 2018 and January 2019. A comprehensive subgroup analysis was performed based on covariates, and within each subgroup, linearly regressing BMI to BP. Key Outcome and Measures: Measurement was taken including height weight, resting radial arterial pulse, resting brachial artery blood pressures (SBP, DBP) and calculated Pulse and mean pressure by applying appropriate procedures in young adult students of BICH. Results: The study included 99 participants (52 Male and 47 female; mean [SD] age, 21.5 (2.08) years. Among the study sample, the mean (SD) BMI was 22.62 (3.6), the mean (SD) systolic BP was 120.87 (11.72) mmHg, and the mean (SD) diastolic BP was 79.92 (7.20) mmHg. The association between BMI and BP was substantially weaker in subgroups of patients taking antihypertensive medication compared with those who were untreated. In untreated subgroups, 95%of the coefficients varied by less than 1mmHg/(kg/m2). Comparison between normal status and pre-hypertension + stage 1 hypertension was highly significant (p-0.007). Regarding BMI<18.4 in gender, it was statistically significant in normal status and pre-hypertension + stage 1 hypertension (p=0.018).The association between BMI and BP is positive across the young adult’s students in BICH. There has a greater impact of the Non communicable diseases by the associati