Abstract
Objective: To find the correlation between waist circumference and other factors such as lipid profiles, fasting blood glucose and blood pressure in healthy menopausal women attending menopause clinic. Material and methods: A cross sectional study was carried out at the Menopause clinic, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. Four-hundred healthy menopause women who had no medication for hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes mellitus and other medical conditions were enrolled. Waist circumference, hip circumference, body weight, height, blood pressure were measured and their blood samples were taken for lipid profiles and fasting blood glucose level after 12 hours fasting. Results: The mean age of participants was 53.4 ± 5.8 years. Mean waist and hip circumference were 76.2 ± 8.0 and 95.9 ± 6.7 cm, respectively. Mean body mass index was 23.3 ± 3.1 kg/m2. Positive correlations were found between waist circumference and other factors: triglyceride level, fasting blood glucose and blood pressure. There was a negative correlation between waist circumference and HDL-Cholesterol level. The prevalence of metabolic syndrome among participants by modified National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment panel III (NCEP ATP-III) with Asian waist circumference was 21.0%. Conclusion: Waist circumference had a positive correlation with triglyceride level, fasting blood glucose and blood pressure and a negative correlation with HDL-C.
Highlights
Similar to waist circumference (WC), blood pressure (BP), fasting blood glucose (FBG), triglyceride (TG) and HDL cholesterol (HDL-C) is one of the factors used in the diagnosis of metabolic syndrome (MS).Waist circumference measurement is a simple method at no cost while waist hip ratio (WHR) reflects the fat distribution and can predict the MS and other cardiovascular risks
Metabolic syndrome patients carry a higher risk for cardiovascular disease and diabetes mellitus and for a mortality rate associated with these causes [1,2]
While BMI, BP, FBG, TG, LDL-C and HDL-C were significantly different between groups
Summary
Similar to waist circumference (WC), blood pressure (BP), fasting blood glucose (FBG), triglyceride (TG) and HDL cholesterol (HDL-C) is one of the factors used in the diagnosis of metabolic syndrome (MS).Waist circumference measurement is a simple method at no cost while waist hip ratio (WHR) reflects the fat distribution and can predict the MS and other cardiovascular risks. Metabolic syndrome patients carry a higher risk for cardiovascular disease and diabetes mellitus and for a mortality rate associated with these causes [1,2]. The prevalence of MS is higher when women going through menopausal period [3,4]. At the present there is a trend that both men and women of all age group have abnormal cholesterol level and more abdominal obesity [5]
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