Exploring the Relationship Between Different Obesity Measurements, Blood Pressure, and Blood Lipid Levels in Middle-Aged Korean Women

Abstract

This study aimed to examine how blood pressure and blood lipid levels are associated with body mass index(BMI), body fat percentage (BF%), waist circumference (WC), waist-stature ratio (WSR), and waist-hip ratio (WHR) in middle-aged Korean women. A cross-sectional survey of 174 middle-aged Korean women was conducted in 2019. As measurement items, obesity index was BMI, BF%, WC, WSR, and WHR, blood pressure was SBP, DBP, and blood lipids were total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) was measured. Statistical analysis methods such as Pearson correlation and multiple regression were used to analyze the relationship between obesity index, blood pressure, and blood lipids. Results of the study revealed causal relationship between systolic blood pressure (SBP) and BMI and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) and WSR. TC showed a causal relationship with BF%, TG with BMI, HDL-C with WHR, and LDL-C with BF% and BMI. To sum up, the examination of five obesity measures in middle-aged Korean women revealed that BMI had the greatest ability to predict blood pressure, whereas BF% exhibited the strongest correlation with blood lipids.