| Summary: | 碩士 === 佛光大學 === 生命與宗教學系 === 100 === Obesity-related symptom could induce disease and significantly affected human health. For example, dyslipidemia would increase the risk to have hyperlipidemia, hypertension and cardiovascular disease and threaten human health and life. Up to now, in Taiwan most of the obesity-related studies considering the association between obesity and lipidemia content were solely focused on adult and senior populations. However, similar studies inspected in younger generations(e.g., college students) in Taiwan still remained open to be discussed. The goal of this study considered herein survey on college student health to discuss the correlation, distribution, obesity index, lipidemia and hemodynamic variables. This study was carried out in cross-sectional inspection. An effective sample of 980 undergraduate students in an university in Yilan county during academic year of 2009 was studied.
The findings were indicated as follows：
(A)For male students, apparently the body height, body weight, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, triglyceride, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, pulse pressure, mean arterial pressure were all significantly greater than female (p＜.001). For female students, average cholesterol levels were appreciably higher than male students (p＜.001). The correlations of BMI, waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio with gender were statistically significant. However, the correlation between cholesterol level and gender was not significant. The association between triglyceride level and gender was significant at p＜.001. The association between systolic blood pressure, pulse pressure and gender was significant (p＜.001).
(B) Obesity index (e.g., waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, BMI), cholesterol, triglyceride all correlated to each other. When the value of BMI, waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio increased, cholesterol, triglyceride also increased. When waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio was above the normal level, cholesterol, triglyceride tended to be abnormal as well. Overweight and obesity seemed to be associated with abnormal levels of cholesterol and triglyceride. BMI associated to body weight, waist circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, cholesterol, triglyceride was statistically significant (p＜.001).
(C)Waist circumference was found to be correlated to systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, pulse pressure, mean arterial pressure. Waist-to-hip ratio was correlated with systolic blood pressure, pulse pressure, mean arterial pressure. BMI was correlated to systolic blood pressure, mean arterial pressure (p＜.05). The higher waist circumference would increase the values of systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, pulse pressure and mean arterial pressure. An increase in waist-to-hip ratio would increase systolic blood pressure, pulse pressure and mean arterial pressure. When BMI was increased, systolic blood pressure and mean arterial pressure would increase.
(D)Although the hemodynamic-related variables seemed to be correlated to cholesterol, triglyceride, they were still not in sufficiently significant levels.
As aforementioned this study conveyed the relationship among obesity index, lipidemia and hemodynamics contend to sectors in promotions of education and public health for health policy in nation scale.
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