The characteristics of elevated blood pressure in abdominal obesity correspond to primary hypertension: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Obesity-related hypertension and the associated metabolic abnormalities are considered as a distinct hypertensive phenotype. Here we examined how abdominal fat content, as judged by waist:height ratio, influenced blood pressure and hemodynamic profile in normotensive subjects and never-treated hypertensive patients.

Methods

The 541 participants (20-72 years) underwent physical examination and laboratory analyses and were divided into age and sex-adjusted quartiles of waist:height ratio. Supine hemodynamics were recorded using whole-body impedance cardiography, combined with analyses of radial tonometric pulse wave form and heart rate variability.

Results

Mean waist:height ratios in the quartiles were 0.46, 0.51, 0.55 and 0.62. Radial and aortic blood pressu

SUBMITTER: Taurio J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10045516 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature