Anthropometrical indicators in normotensive and hipertensive women

• Autor(a) principal: Souza, Priscilla Alencastro de
• Data de Publicação: 2004
• Outros Autores: Silqueira, Salete Maria de Fátima, Kac, Gilberto, Oliveira, Edílson Ornelas, Velásquez-Meléndez, Gustavo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Reme (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/reme/article/view/50875
• topic: Mujeres; Adiposidad; Hipertensión; Adiposidade; Mulheres; Hipertensão; Women; Adiposity; Hypertension

This study determined the relationship between age and global and regional body fat distribution, which was measured by skin folds and body circumferences, in normotensive (n = 104) and hypertensive (n = 100) women. Hypertension was defined as systolic blood pressure > 140 mmHg and diastolic blood pressure > 90 mmHg. Statistical analyses was carried out through the description of the variables: mean, standard deviation and 95 % confidence intervals (CI 95%), comparison between age and adiposity measurements for both groups through angular coefficients (□) and CI 95%. Correlation and determination coefficients were also calculated between age and adiposity measurements for normotensive and hipertensive women. We found that normotensive women presented a significant increase of adiposity in the abdomen (□ = 0,558; CI 95%: 0,105:1,011) when compared to hypertensive women (□ = 0,121; CI 95%: -0,278:0,520). Therefore, age presented a statistically significant association with abdominal skin fold only in the group of normotensive patients.