Association of different obesity patterns with hypertension in US male adults: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT: Obesity is an important risk factor for hypertension. We aimed to investigate the association between different obesity patterns and hypertension risk in a large male population in the US. Male participants from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) (2007-2018) were enrolled in this cross-sectional study. Social demographic information, lifestyle factors, anthropometric measurements and biochemical measurements were collected. Three obesity patterns were classified according to the body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC), including overweight and general obesity, abdominal obesity, and compound obesity. We adopted multivariate logistic regression to investigate the associations between hypertension and different obesity patterns after adjusting for cofoun

SUBMITTER: Chen L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10310720 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature