BMI, waist to height ratio and waist circumference as a screening tool for hypertension in hospital outpatients: a cross-sectional, non-inferiority study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This non-inferiority study aimed to determine the burden of obesity in a hospital outpatient setting of a developing country, using three commonly employed metrics as predictors of hypertension (HTN).

Design

A cross-sectional study design was adopted.

Setting

This study was conducted in Health Promotion and Risk Factor Screening Services of a tertiary hospital for eye and ear, nose, throat in a semiurban area of Nepal.

Participants

2256 randomly selected outpatients between 40 and 69 years old.

Outcome measures

The three obesity metrics and HTN were analysed for association using correlation, the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve and ORs.

Results

The prevalence of obesity or overweight by body mass index (BMI)

SUBMITTER: Shrestha R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8628118 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature