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| Saleem,Zikria; Saeed,Hamid; Khan,Zohaib Abbas; Khan,Muhammad Imran Hassan; Hashmi,Furqan Khurshid; Islam,Muhammad; Bashir,Afzaal; Sadeeqa,Saleha. |
| The study was performed to estimate the association of hypertension and dyslipidaemia with increasing body weight and obesity in Type II diabetics of Lahore, Pakistan. An observational study was conducted by enrolling 2708 obese diabetics from four diabetes care centres of Lahore, Pakistan. Data was collected for a period of 7 months. Associations were estimated using chi-square, binary and multinomial logistic regression. Data suggested that blood pressure, systolic and diastolic, exhibited continual increase with increasing body weight and obesity class in diabetes patients with 41.8% increase in the prevalence of hypertension in obesity class III subjects (OR; 1.91, p=0.02). Likewise, triglycerides and total cholesterol exhibited continual increase in... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Type II Diabetes Mellitus; Dyslipidaemia; Obesity; HbA1c; Lahore/Pakistan. |
| Ano: 2019 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-82502019000100503 |
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