Interrelationships of age and the body mass index with risk factors of non-insulin dependent diabetes in European and migrant Asian males

Abstract

A comparative study of the interrelationships of age and the body mass index (BMI) with several risk factors for non‐insulin‐dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) in adult White European (hereafter called European n = 262) and migrant Indian (n = 39) and Pakistani (n = 100) males residing in Peterborough, East Anglia, revealed significantly lower mean total cholesterol (TC), but higher mean diastolic blood pressure (DBP) in Asian men. Similar associations between age and fasting blood glucose (FBG), total cholesterol (TC), systolic (SBP), and diastolic (DBP) blood pressure were observed in Asian and European men, but TC, SBP and DBP differed between the ethnic groups. The BMI showed a significant relationship (after removal of the age effect) with SBP and DBP in all ethnic groups, but there was no significant ethnic group heterogeneity in the associations of BMI with FBG, TC, SBP and DBP. The distributions (age and BMI controlled) of TC, SBP and DBP were significantly different in Asians compared with Europeans. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 9:291–296, 1997. © 1997 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

Adiposity measures and their relationship with metabolic risk factors for coronary heart disease in Bengalee Hindu men of Kolkata, India

“…Results of the present study indicated that there existed no significant relationship of BMI with any of the metabolic risk factors for CHD. Similar results were obtained in a recent study among migrant Indians in Britain (Bose and Mascie-Taylor, 1997) which also reported that BMI did not have significant association with metabolic risk factors of CHD. These results suggest that among Indians, both migrant as well as native, BMI does not have strong association with metabolic risk factors of CHD.…”

Differences in body composition between pre-menarcheal and menarcheal Bengalee Hindu girls of Madhyamgram, West Bengal, India

“…Body mass index (BMI) is the most commonly used indirect measure of overall adiposity (Bose and Mascie-Taylor, 1997;Bhadra et al, 2001;Ghosh et al, 2001Ghosh et al, , 2003Ghosh et al, , 2004Bose and Mukhopadhyay, 2004), while percent body fat (PBF), fat mass (FM), fat free mass (FFM), and fat mass index (FMI) are the most widely studied measures of body composition (VanItalie et al, 1990;Wang and Bachrach, 1996;Bose, 1998;Mueller et al, 2003). Prediction of PBF from skinfold thicknesses is an acceptable method for the assessment of body composition in children and adolescents (Deurenberg et al, 1990;Williams et al, 1992;Mueller et al, 2003).…”