title: The Different Effects of BMI and WC on Organ Damage in Patients from a Cardiac Rehabilitation Program after Acute Coronary Syndrome.
abstract: One of the purposes of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) after acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is to monitor and control weight of the patient. Our study is to compare the different obesity indexes, body mass index (BMI), and waist circumference (WC), through one well-designed CR program (CRP) with ACS in Guangzhou city of Guangdong Province, China, in order to identify different effects of BMI and WC on organ damage. In our work, sixty-one patients between October 2013 and January 2014 fulfilled our study. We collected the vital signs by medical records, the clinical variables of body-metabolic status by fasting blood test, and the organ damage variables by submaximal exercise treadmill test (ETT) and ultrasonic cardiogram (UCG) both on our inpatient and four-to-five weeks of outpatient part of CRP after ACS. We mainly used two-tailed Pearson's test and liner regression to evaluate the relationship of BMI/WC and organ damage. Our results confirmed that WC could be more accurate than BMI to evaluate the cardiac function through the changes of left ventricular structure on the CRP after ACS cases. It makes sense of early diagnosis, valid evaluation, and proper adjustment to ACS in CRP of the obesity individuals in the future.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Guangzhou General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Region, PLA, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510010, China.
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Guangzhou General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Region, PLA, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510010, China ; Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou 510403, China.
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Guangzhou General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Region, PLA, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510010, China.
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Qiu
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Guangzhou General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Region, PLA, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510010, China.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Guangzhou General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Region, PLA, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510010, China.
authors.forename: Hongqiang
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lei
authors.affiliation: Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou 510403, China.
authors.forename: Zekun
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Cai
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China ; Key Laboratory for Health Informatics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China.
authors.forename: Wan-Hua
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Medical Biomechanics, School of Basic Medical Science, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China.
authors.forename: Wenhua
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China ; Key Laboratory for Health Informatics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China.
authors.forename: Heye
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory for Health Informatics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China ; Joint Research Center for Biomedical Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories 999077, Hong Kong.
authors.forename: Yuan-Ting
authors.initials: YT
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D054058:Acute Coronary Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D015992:Body Mass Index; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D015897:Comorbidity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D055105:Waist Circumference