Acta Anatomica Sinica ›› 2023, Vol. 54 ›› Issue (6): 730-737.doi: 10.16098/j.issn.0529-1356.2023.06.016

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 Nutritional physical indexes,obesity status and their warning effect on hypertension among Blang, Deang and Va  ethnic groups in Yunnan

WANG Zi-shan1  ZHANG Xing-hua2,3*  XU Fei4  YU Ke-li2,3  ZHENG Lian-bin2,3  CHENG Yu1,5   

  1. 1.School of Sociology & Anthropology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China;

     2.College of Life Sciences,Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China;

     3.Tianjin Key Laboratory of Conservation and Utilization of Animal Diversity, Tianjin 300387, China;

     4.South China University of Technology School of Medicine, Guangzhou 510006, China;  5.Department of Medical Humanities,the Seventh Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Shenzhen 518107,  China

  • Received:2022-11-21 Revised:2023-02-16 Online:2023-12-06 Published:2023-12-06

Abstract:

Objective To analyze the nutritional level, obesity status and the prevalence of hypertension in Blang, Deang and Va ethnic groups in Yunnan, to explore the relationship among nutritional physical index, obesity indicators and blood pressure, and use the cutoff value of related indicators to warn hypertension.  Methods This paper was based on a statistical analysis of the 7 nutritional physical indexes, 5 types of obesity status and hypertension status of 766 Blang, 570 Deang and 565 Va.   Results  We found that the nutritional physique index of many items (4 items for men and 4 items for women) of Blang was significantly higher than that of Deang and Va (P<0.05), the Erismann’s index and Pelidisi’s index of Deang female were significantly higher than those of Blang female and Va female (P<0.05). The differences in the obesity rates determined by the three obesity determination indexes of waist circumference(WC), waist-to-hip ratio(WHR) and percent of body fat(PBF)were statistically significant among the three ethnic groups (P<0.05), and the obesity rates determined by the three indexes of body mass index (BMI), body adiposity index (BAI) and PBF were all the highest in the Blang, and the central obesity rates determined by the two indexes of WC and WHR were all the highest in Va. The rank of the prevalence of hypertension was Va > Blang > Deang and the difference was statistically significant (P<0.05). Conclusion Pelidisi’s index, WHR, and PBF all have good early warning effects on hypertension in all three ethnic groups.

Key words: Nutritional physical indexes, Obesity, Hypertension, Ethnic group, Somatometry, Adult

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