title: [Prehypertension, hypertension and obesity types].
abstract: Aim of this study is to relate type of obesity with prehypertension and hypertension at 204 adult persons, both genders, age between 35-75 y. As a risk values of waist circumference were considered circumferences more than 94 cm at males and more than 80 cm at females. Obesity was less expressed in group of patients with prehypertension (BMI 25.8 +/- 4.4 kg/m2) compared with group of patients with hypertension (BMI 29.1 +/- 4.8 kg/m2). Blood pressure was positively correlated with obesity, especially with android type obesity. There was higher correlation of blood pressure with waist circumference, than with BMI. It is important to reduce overweight in a manner to prevent hypertension, especially at prehypertensive patients with android obesity.
authors.affiliation: Insititut za Higijenu, Medicinski Fakultet Univerziteta u Sarajevu.
authors.forename: Azar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Biscević
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001794:Blood Pressure; D015992:Body Mass Index; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009765:Obesity / Q000145:classification / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D049629:Waist-Hip Ratio