Overweight and Hypertension
Overweight and Hypertension
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超重和高血压
DOI:
10.1111/j.0954-6820.1957.tb00530.x
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发表时间:
2009
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T. Bjerkedal
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T. Bjerkedal
During periodic health examinations of employees in industrial plants in Norway complete sets of data from about 11, 000 men and 4000 women were obtained for age, bodyweight without clothing, height without shoes and systolic and diastolic blood pressures. Average weights for each sex, age and height had been obtained in a previous study of the same population (Lindberget al., Tidsskr. norske Lægeforening, 1956, 76, 361); they were used to classify individuals in 10 groups according to their percentages underweight or overweight. For each sex and age group mean blood pressures were tabulated for each of these 10 sub-groups, and it was found that there was a tendency for an even rise in the systolic and diastolic blood pressures to occur with increasing relative bodyweight in all sex and age groups. To decide whether the increase was caused by the presence, in the higher relative weight groups, of some individuals with unusually high blood pressure, or by a general rise in blood pressure with overweight in men and women, a study was made of the distribution of the values in 3 main weight groups within each sex and age group. It showed that, in general, the form of the distribution remained constant, and that it shifted bodily to the right with increasing relative weight, so that the second interpretation is true, except possibly for the older women [there were relatively few of these in the sample].The magnitude of the change of measured blood pressure with increasing relative weight was approximately 1 to 2 mm. Hg between two consecutive 5 per cent. weight groups, about what would be expected from the effect on auscultatory measurements of increasing upper arm girth (cf. Rogan and Bondley,Bull. Johns Hopkins Hosp., 1941, 69, 504). It is concluded that the general rise of blood pressure with increase of bodyweight originates from the technique normally used for measurement and that it does not reflect a genuine increase of blood pressure as such. There is therefore no general relation between obesity and hypertension.-I. McDonald.