Abstract

STUDY OF CORRELATION BETWEEN BODY MASS INDEX, AGE AND VARIOUS CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS

S. S. Sakhare*, N. A. Kamble and S. C. Sakhare

ABSTRACT

The development of any state or society depends largely on the quality of health education. Regular physical activity, fitness and exercise are critically important for the health and well being of people of all ages. India in a process of rapid economic development and modernization with changing lifestyle factors has an increasing trend of hypertension, especially among the urban population. Physiological and metabolic functions of the body, which are directly dependent on the body mass index and on its distribution around the body resulting cardiovascular diseases like hyperlipedemia and hemodynamic disturbances. There is a positive association between increasing age, body mass index and blood pressure.

Keywords: Age, body mass index, cardiac parameters, obese and non obese.