Comparison of Anthropometric Parameters and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors Among Subjects With Overweight and Obesity

Azienda Ospedaliera Specializzata in Gastroenterologia Saverio de Bellis

Status: Completed

Conditions: Obesity

Treatments: Other: Observational

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04318288

2/2020

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study was aimed at comparing four different anthropometric parameters to cardiometabolic risk factors in overweight and obese subjects (Body Mass Index (BMI)≥25)

Full description

the present study was focused to compare the level of statistical association among four different anthropometric parameters, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), waist to height ratio (WHtR) and neck circumference (NC) and the cardiovascular (CV) risk factors most commonly evaluated in the clinical practice such as systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and fasting glucose, lipid (triglycerides, total, High-density lipoprotein (HDL) and Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol), insulin, Homeostatic Model Assessment for Insulin Resistance (HOMA-IR), uric acid, 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D), c-reactive protein (CRP), white blood cells and platelet number in a population of 1214 apparently healthy subjects with overweight and obesity subjects

Enrollment: 1,214 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Overweight or obesity (BMI> 25 Kg/m2)

Exclusion criteria

• Any kind of drug
• Hypertension
• Endocrine diseases (diabetes mellitus, hypo or hyperthyroidism, hypopituitarism, etc.),
• Chronic inflammatory diseases
• Renal failure
• Liver failure
• Angina pectoris
• Myocardial infarction and heart failure
• Genetic heart diseases
• Thrombocytopenias