November
2020
- Volume 14, Issue 2
Body
weight and blood pressure
Mehmet Rami Helvaci (1)
Mustafa Yaprak (1)
Abdulrazak Abyad (2)
Lesley Pocock (3)
(1) Specialist of Internal Medicine,
MD
(2) Middle-East Academy for Medicine of Aging, MD
(3) medi+WORLD International
Correspondence:
Dr Mehmet Rami Helvaci,
07400, ALANYA, Turkey
Phone: 00-90-506-4708759
Email: mramihelvaci@hotmail.com
Received: September 2020; Accepted:
October 2020; Published: November1, 2020
Citation: Mehmet Rami Helvaci et al. Body weight and blood
pressure. Middle East Journal of Nursing 2020; 14(2): 22-27
DOI: 10.5742/MEJN2020.93786
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Background: Body weight may have some effects on systolic
and diastolic blood pressure (BP) in the body.
Methods: The study was performed
in the Hematology and Internal Medicine Polyclinics on patients
with sickle cell diseases (SCD) and routine check up cases.
Results: The study included
122 patients with the SCD (58 females) and 176 age and sex-matched
control cases, totally. Mean age of patients with the SCD
was 28.6 years. When we compared the patients and control
groups, the mean body weight and body mass index were significantly
retarded in patients with the SCD (71.6 versus 57.8 kg and
24.9 versus 20.7 kg/m2, respectively, p= 0.000 for both),
whereas the mean body height was similar in both groups (166.1
versus 168.5 cm, p>0.05). Parallel to the retarded mean
body weight, mean values of the low density lipoproteins,
high density lipoproteins, and alanine aminotransferase were
also lower in patients with the SCD (p= 0.000 for all). Parallel
to the retarded mean body weight again, mean values of the
systolic and diastolic BP were significanly lower in patients
with the SCD (113.3 versus 118.8 and 72.3 versus 83.6 mmHg,
respectively, p<0.01 for both).
Conclusion: Body weight may be the major determining factor
of systolic and diastolic BP in the body.
Key words: Body weight, body
mass index, blood pressure, metabolic syndrome
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