Relationship between Obesity Indices and Cardiovascular Risk Factors (Blood Pressure and Blood Glucose) in Young Adult Medical Students

Abstract

Here, this study will look for association between obesity indices which are BMI and WHR with cardiovascular risk factors such as blood pressure and blood glucose amongst young adult medical students. Overweight is considered an essential precondition giving rise to hypertension and irregular glucose metabolism, which makes it an important factor of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. Finally, all the 150 medical students had their BMI, WHR, systolic and diastolic blood pressure and fasting blood glucose level recorded. To that end, the observations were compared in order to identify the existence and degree of association between obesity indices and the aforementioned parameters. These revealed that with a positive correlation between a higher BMI and consistently increased blood pressure, with the same but slightly lesser trend for blood glucose. Based on these findings it can be concluded that young medical students belonging to the group of young adults are in greater risk of hypertension and metabolic dysregulation if they have higher Obesity indices. Probably it is useful to have an early intervention approach that targeted weight loss, increased physically active, and change of diet likely to prevent the above-discussed health consequences in this group.

Keywords: Obesity indices, BMI, WHR, blood pressure, blood glucose, young adults, medical students, cardiovascular risk factors.