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Volume 4 Issue 6 (November - December, 2016)

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EFFECT OF ADIPOSITY ON THE CARDIOVASCULAR FITNESS OF DIABETIC PATIENTS
Harvir Singh Sodhi, Manpreet Singh

Background: In both industrial and developing nations, excess food intake and physical inactivity underlie the growing worldwide epidemic of obesity. A direct association of visceral fat accumulation can be postulated with the development of cardiovascular disease. There exists a strong relationship between adiposity, risk of insulin resistance and development of cardiovascular diseases. Hence; we conducted the present study to ass the effect of adiposity on the cardiovascular fitness of the diabetic patients. Materials & methods: The present study was conducted in the department of physiology and medicine and included assessment of 233 patients who were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. The following data were collected: demographic details (ethnicity, place and date of birth, sex), height, weight, duration of diabetes, waist circumference (WC), systolic/ diastolic blood pressure (SBP/DBP), glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) (with normal reference ranges), triglycerides (TG), HDL cholesterol, current insulin therapy, other medical therapies. The mean of four HbA1c determinations during the previous year (HbA1cyear) was considered for each patient; all the HbA1c values provided from different centres were mathematically standardized to the DCCT normal range (4.05– 6.05%). All the results were analyzed by SPSS software. Results: Mean age of male and females patients was 30.5 and 32.1 years. Mean duration of diabetes among males and females was 7.9 and 8.8 years respectively. Mean BMI of the male and females was 22.5 and 24.3 kg/m2 respectively. Significant results were observed while comparing the mean height of the patients, mean weight of the patients and mean systolic blood pressure among males and females respectively. Conclusion: Particularly in female patients with diabetes, more emphasis should be given to the adiposity as it is have some amount of effect on cardiovascular fitness.
Key words: Adiposity, Cardiovascular, Diabetes

Corresponding Author: Dr. Harvir Singh Sodhi, Professor, Department of  Physiology, Varun Arjun Medical College,  Shahjahanpur, India

This article may be cited as: Sodhi HS,  Singh M. Effect of adiposity on the cardiovascular fitness of diabetic patients. J Adv Med Dent Scie Res 2016;4(6):195-198.

 
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