Anand Avinash, Verma Narsingh, Tiwari Sunita, Verma Dileep
Department of Physiology, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2020 Jul 30;9(7):3370-3373. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_112_20. eCollection 2020 Jul.
Obesity has become a challenge for global public health. The global prevalence of obesity has nearly doubled in the past decades (World Health Organization). Obesity may lead to changes in the sympathetic regulation of cardiovascular function, thus favoring the development of cardiovascular complications.
To find a correlation between various obesity indices (body mass index, waist-height ratio, waist circumference and waist-hip ratio) and heart rate recovery in healthy subjects.
A total of 100 apparently healthy subjects aged 18-30 years were enrolled and were divided into two groups on the absence and presence of a family history of cardiovascular disease. The treadmill testing was done in the exercise lab of the physiology department of the medical institute. Exercise testing of the subjects was conducted according to the standard Bruce protocols.
There was a negative correlation between various obesity indices and heart rate recovery but we did not get a statistically signification association between them.
In our study, we have found no statistically significant association between various obesity indices and heart rate recovery. Thus measuring obesity indices in the younger age group will not lead to much significance in terms of heart rate recovery and may be avoided.
肥胖已成为全球公共卫生面临的一项挑战。在过去几十年中，全球肥胖患病率几乎翻了一番（世界卫生组织）。肥胖可能导致心血管功能交感神经调节发生变化，从而促进心血管并发症的发展。
在健康受试者中找出各种肥胖指标（体重指数、腰高比、腰围和腰臀比）与心率恢复之间的相关性。
共招募了100名年龄在18至30岁之间的明显健康受试者，并根据是否有心血管疾病家族史将其分为两组。在医学院生理系的运动实验室进行跑步机测试。受试者的运动测试按照标准布鲁斯方案进行。
各种肥胖指标与心率恢复之间存在负相关，但我们未发现它们之间存在统计学意义上的关联。
在我们的研究中，我们未发现各种肥胖指标与心率恢复之间存在统计学意义上的关联。因此，在较年轻年龄组中测量肥胖指标对于心率恢复而言意义不大，或许可以避免。
