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BODY FAT, BLOOD PRESSURE AND SERUM CHOLESTEROL OF AUSTRALIAN MEN
Author(s) -
WHYTE H. M.,
GRAHAM I. A. D.,
WOLFE M. S.
Publication year - 1958
Publication title -
australasian annals of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 0571-9283
DOI - 10.1111/imj.1958.7.4.328
Subject(s) - blood pressure , obesity , medicine , cholesterol , body weight , blood cholesterol , skinfold thickness , endocrinology , circumference , waist , serum cholesterol , physiology , geometry , mathematics
Summary In a survey of 129 men chosen at random from an industrial organization measurements were made of height, weight, skinfold thickness, circumference of the arm, blood pressure and serum cholesterol concentration. The interrelations between these factors are analysed. Blood pressure increased principally with age but also with body weight (presumably with obesity, though this was not proven). The serum cholesterol concentration, averaging 244 milligrammes per 100 millilitres, was apparently not related to age, obesity, blood pressure or dietary fat. Difficulties in assessing obesity and the possible implications of the results of the survey in regard to essential hypertension and vascular degeneration in obesity are discussed.