Correlation among risk factors of hypertension and waist-to-height ratio in officers of regiment and a-bove in troops stationed in Zhejiang / 心血管康复医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To explore the correlation among risk factors of hypertension and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) in officers of regiment and above in troops stationed in Zhejiang .Methods:A total of 2641 officers of regi-ment and above from troops stationed in Zhejiang ,who participated in annual physical examination in our hospital from 2012 to 2013 ,were selected .Correlation among body mass index (BMI) ,waist circumference (WC) ,WHtR , waist/hip ratio (WHR) and blood pressure were analyzed ;receiver operator characteristic curve (ROC) was used to compare and analyze the predictive value of above four indexes on hypertension and judge the optimal cut-off point . Results:(1) Pearson correlation analysis indicated that WHtR was positively correlated with WC ,BMI ,WHR ,sys-tolic and diastolic blood pressure (r=0.25~0.94 ,P<0.005~ <0.001);(2) Among above four indexes ,WHtR had the largest area under the ROC curve 0.697 (95% CI 0.676~0.718) and the optimal cut-off point was 0.51 ;and it's 0.651 (95% CI 0.639~0.662) for BMI ,0.689 (95% CI 0.664~0.751) for WC and 0.685 (95% CI 0.672~0.698) for WHR ;for morbidity risk of hypertension ,compared with BMI ,WC and WHR ,WHtR possessed the most balanced sensitivity (60.68% ) and specificity (70.74% ) ,and the largest OR 4.12 (3.71~4.59) .Conclusion:(1) Among officers of regiment and above in troops stationed in Zhejiang ,anthropometric indexes are closely relat-ed to blood pressure ,which can be regarded as simple indexes for predicting and assessing morbidity risk of the popu-lation ;(2) Waist-to-height ratio may be the best anthropometric index evaluating risk of hypertension in these popu-lation and its optimal cuf-off point is 0.51 for predicting hypertension .