[Effect of obesity on blood pressure, serum lipid, liver function, blood sugar and uric acid]

Autor: Nobuo Okamoto, Kiyoko Yagyu, Shuji Hashimoto, Takashi Kato, Kazushi Okamoto, Yukio Saito, Kiyoshi Maeda, Touru Ohtsuka, Akira Takahashi
Rok vydání: 1988
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Zdroj: Nihon eiseigaku zasshi. Japanese journal of hygiene. 43(5)
ISSN: 0021-5082
Popis: The purposes of this study are to clarify the obestic distribution of the sample population (subjects: 6, 272 persons; males: 4, 900: females: 1, 373, ages ranging from 20 to 68) and to examine the possible effects of the degree of the obesity on the various somatological factors of the obesity such as blood pressure, serum lipid, liver function, blood sugar, and uric acid.The results obtained are the following:1) The distribution of the obesity degree among the male population was similar regardless of the age groups except that of the age group in the 20s, which was relatively lower than the other groups, while the distribution among the females indicated a chronological rising curve in every age group.2) The proportion of people who have high blood pressure, high serum lipid, liver disorder, high blood sugar, or high uric acid in the sampling population showed a rising curve as the degree of obesity rose, with some differences in terms of the sex.3) The population curve of abnormality of the somatological factors listed above with the obesity degree of 140 percent or more among the male population declined in some cases, whereas the curve showed a rise among the female population.4) The effect of obesity on the living body differ between the sexes.
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