DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2017.v05i05.024

Pages: 1832-1836

Obesity is defined by Body mass index (BMI), Waist to Hip ration (WHR), assessing cardiovascular risk factors. The aim of the study is to evaluate the blood pressure, pulse pressure, WHR, BMI among obese male persons and their correlation with normal healthy people. This study was done from September 2015 to march 2016 at Department of Physiology, Government Medical College, and Anantapuram. A total of 136 obese male people were selected to do this study. Among them 68 obese patients who came for follow up were selected and considered as cases, remaining 68 were normal healthy persons, considered as controls. Controls were selected such that they correlate mostly with cases in respect to age, sex. Details regarding age, socioeconomic status, height, weight were collected. Body Mass Index (BMI), Waist to Hip (WHR), Pulse pressure, Blood pressure was measured. All the results were entered into spread excel sheet and were analyzed. Out of 68 obese male persons, obesity was most prevalent in 41-50 years age group (36.7%) followed by 31-40 years (27.9%). Blood pressure, Pulse pressures were higher among obese male persons when compared to Normal healthy persons. BMI, WHR, Blood pressure, Pulse pressure are important predictors of hypertension, diabetes, chronic heart disease etc. Assessing these predictors, will help in reducing the incidence of hypertension, diabetes and aids to start appropriate early treatment, which leads to decrease in morbidity and mortality incidence.