ArticleCureus2023
The Association Between Body Mass Index and Parental History of Hypertension Among Young Indian Adults.
Article in Cureus, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundHypertension is a disease of multifactorial etiology. Individuals with parental history of hypertension (PHH) have also been observed to be at an increased risk of developing hypertension in their adult life. However, there is a dearth of studies among youth. Obesity is one of the risk factors, and studies conducted among adults of all age groups have observed that there is a highly significant correlation between hypertension and body mass index (BMI). Hence, the association between the two factors, viz., parental history of hypertension and BMI, among the young Indian male and female population was analyzed in this study.
methodThis cross-sectional study conducted in Central India comprised 100 young adults between 18 and 25 years of age. On the basis of parental history of hypertension, the subjects were divided into two groups: group 1 comprised youth with parental history of hypertension and group 2 comprised youth without parental history of hypertension, involving 32 and 68 subjects in each of these groups, respectively. Anthropometric measurements were done using standard methods, and BMI was calculated. Statistical analysis was done using Epi Info software.
resultsThe study subjects in both groups were comparable in age. The mean age of the study participants was 19.32 years and 19.45 years in group 1 and group 2, respectively. The study did not find any association between BMI and parental history of hypertension.
conclusionThe association between parental history of hypertension and BMI, the non-modifiable and modifiable independent risk factors, respectively, needs to be further explored in light of the iceberg phenomenon, multifactorial causation, and natural history of disease. It is worth mentioning that parental history of hypertension and other risk factors should be considered even if the BMI is normal as per Asian Indian cutoff levels.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.