Anthropometric Measurements and its Relation to Hypertension in Cardiovascular Diseased Patients

Objectives: Obesity is one of the modifiable risk factors in cardiovascular disease (CVD). The prevalence of obesity in patients with cardiovascular disease is 25-35% especially android obesity. This study design to determine the anthropometric measurements and its relation to hypertension in CVD patients.

Method and material: This cross-sectional study determines the anthropometric measurements of 180 CVD patients referred to Motahhari clinic in Shiraz. Subjects were selected using simple sampling and anthropometric

Data were analyzed by using SPSS# 11، qualitative statistic and chi-square test.

Results: 45% of patients in the study had BMI of 25-29.9 and 20.1 % had BMI of ≥30. In addition 46.3% of women had skin fold thickness between15 th to 25th percentile and 27.8% of men had skin fold thickness on50 th  to 75th percentile.

The WHR of 97.2% of women and 26.3% of men was abnormal (>0.8 and 1 respectively). No statistically significance relation was seen between anthropometric measurements and hypertension.

Conclusion: obesity prevalence is significantly high in CVD patients and it appears that most of the women with CVD had central obesity and excess subcutaneous Truncal-abdominal fat and men had higher skin fold thickness.