Which anthropometric and metabolic index is superior in hypertension prediction among overweight/obese adults?
Maryam AbolhasaniNastaran MaghbouliShahrokh Karbalai SalehZiba AghsaeifarFaeze SazgaraMaryam TahmasebiHaleh AshrafJemal Haidar AliPublished in: Integrated blood pressure control (2021)
The most powerful association between hypertension and sufficient discrimination ability of normotensives from hypertensive patients was detected for BRI in women and WC among men. However, neither the BSI and BAI nor FMI and FFMI showed superiority to WC or WHtR in predicting the presence of hypertension.