The gender features of the compound body composition in people of middle age with arterial hypertension

Abstract

Objective: to study the parameters of the compound body composition in middle-aged people with arterial hypertension (AH) to determine the targets for prevention and treatment.Materials and methods: 37 men and 58 women with AH aged 45 to 59 years were examined. Questioning, anthropometry with determination of waist circumference (WC), body mass index (BMI), study of compound body composition by bioimpedancemetry, as well as measurement of blood pressure (BP) were carried out.Results: overweight and obesity were found in 87,3% of middle-aged people with AH. In both sexes, there was a direct correlation of visceral fat (VF) with age, BMI, WC and also with diastolic BP.Conclusion: detection of hypertension, increased BMI, VF is necessary for diagnosing metabolic imbalance in middle-aged people in order to further conduct non-drug and preventive therapy, as well as reduce the development of possible complications.