Gender differences in ambulatory blood pressure monitoring profile in obese, overweight and normal subjects
Gender differences in ambulatory blood pressure monitoring profile in obese, overweight and normal subjects
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DOI:
10.1038/sj.jhh.1002118
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发表时间:
2007-02-01
影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
Rapoport, J.
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作者:
Kagan, A.;Faibel, H.;Rapoport, J.
The incidence of obesity has increased enormously in the past several decades, and has been described as a modern epidemic. Obesity is a major factor contributing to hypertension. To the best of our knowledge, no study of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) comparing men with women in relation to body mass indexes (BMI) has been performed. From December 2002 to May 2006, we performed 24-h ABPM in 5950 subjects ( 3102 men and 2848 women), with a wide range of BMI ( range 15.9 - 53.2 kg/m(2)). We defined obese subjects as those with BMI >= 30.0 kg/m(2), overweight subjects as those with BMI >25.0 and