title: Anthropometric evaluation in diabetic patients with ischemic stroke.
abstract: Strokes are one of the most common causes of mortality and long term severe disability. Risk factors for stroke include: age, gender, diabetes mellitus (DM), hypertension, and many others.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate obesity and hypertension in patients affected by acute ischemic stroke.
  
  
  METHODS
  We compared the anthropometric variables between type II diabetic patients and non-diabetic patients. We evaluated a total of 60 patients, divided into two groups: 34 non-diabetic patients and a group of 26 type II diabetic subjects.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The predominance of obesity, as well as hypertension, was very high among the studied groups, presenting no differences among the waist-hip ratio (WHR) values of the study group compared to the ones of the control group.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The predominance of obesity was very high among the studied groups and there was prevalence the android type obesity. There was no significative difference in the anthropometric evaluation by the measurement of WHR and the waist in the groups.
authors.affiliation: Hospital Universitário Lauro Wanderley, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, PB, Brazil. maurus@zaitek.com.br
authors.forename: Maurus Marques de Almeida
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Holanda
authors.forename: Rosália Gouveia
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Filizola
authors.forename: Maria José de Carvalho
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Costa
authors.forename: Emerson Magno Fernandes de
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Andrade
authors.forename: José Alberto Gonçalves da
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Silva
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000886:Anthropometry; D015992:Body Mass Index; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000150:complications*; D003925:Diabetic Angiopathies / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012307:Risk Factors; D012737:Sex Factors; D020521:Stroke / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D049629:Waist-Hip Ratio