Table 2.
Descriptive statistics of all BMI groups. p-values of the ANOVA comparison of blood pressure parameters between BMI groups and subclasses are shown BMI - body mass index; SBP - systolic blood pressure; DBP- diastolic blood pressure; MAP - mean arterial pressure.
| Severe thinness | Moderate thinness | Mild thinness | Underweight (all subgroups) | Normal weight | Overweight | Obese (all subgroups) | Obese class I | Obese class II | Obese class III | p-value between BMI categories | |
| n = 6 | n = 40 | n = 203 | n = 249 | n = 2339 | n = 747 | n = 315 | n = 245 | n = 57 | n = 13 | ||
| BMI | |||||||||||
| Mean (±SD) | 15.4 (0.778) | 16.6 (0.275) | 17.9 (0.402) | 17.6 (0.716) | 21.7 (1.72) | 26.9 (1.37) | 33.3 (3.01) | 32 (1.42) | 37 (1.43) | 42.1 (1.99) | <0.001 |
| SBP | |||||||||||
| Mean (±SD) | 105 (9.39) | 109 (8.27) | 111 (8.52) | 110 (8.54) | 114 (8.82) | 119 (9.59) | 123 (10.8) | 123 (10.8) | 123 (9.62) | 131 (14) | <0.001 |
| DBP | |||||||||||
| Mean (±SD) | 67.3 (6.36) | 70.3 (5.19) | 69.7 (7.77) | 69.8 (7.38) | 71.7 (7.72) | 74.8 (8.06) | 77.1 (9.41) | 77.1 (9.11) | 76 (10.2) | 82.1 (10.4) | <0.001 |
| MAP | |||||||||||
| Mean (±SD) | 79.8 (7.18) | 83.2 (5.54) | 83.4 (7.14) | 83.3 (6.91) | 86 (7.33) | 89.7 (7.92) | 92.6 (0.08) | 92.5 (8.87) | 91.6 (9.34) | 98.3 (10.6) | <0.001 |