Comparative Assessment of the Utility of Anthropometric and Bioelectrical Impedance Indices as Potential Predictors of Hypertension within a Ghanaian Adult Population: A Cross-Sectional Study

Table 2

Anthropometric characteristics of study participants based on gender.

	Male			Female
	Normal	Prehypertensive	Hypertensive	Normal	Prehypertensive	Hypertensive
Number of participant	66	69	69	245	179	184
Systolic	108.99 ± 8.03	125.35 ± 9.41	152.94 ± 17.414	105.72 ± 9.16	124.94 ± 7.80	157.12 ± 21.65
Diastolic	67.68 ± 7.11	77.90 ± 8.20	91.83 ± 12.96	67.95 ± 6.63	79.87 ± 5.65	96.35 ± 12.33
Age	37.68 ± 16.82	45.13 ± 19.60	58.56 ± 18.79	41.70 ± 14.76	48.16 ± 14.93	54.99 ± 14.10
Weight	61.54 ± 8.43	67.09 ± 14.88	67.37 ± 14.54	59.22 ± 12.53	66.81 ± 17.59	67.66 ± 17.90
WC (m)	0.80 ± 0.07	0.86 ± 0.14	0.88 ± 0.13	0.84 ± 0.13	0.91 ± 0.15	0.95 ± 0.16
HC (m)	0.92 ± 6.69	0.94 ± 16.49	0.97 ± 15.18	0.97 ± 12.27	1.02 ± 13.24	1.05 ± 14.49
SM (%)	39.22 ± 6.76	36.72 ± 5.80	33.52 ± 6.54	27.74 ± 3.78	26.41 ± 4.46	26.23 ± 5.14
VF	4.91 ± 2.98	7.87 ± 4.97	8.67 ± 5.10	5.69 ± 2.68	7.36 ± 3.86	8.96 ± 4.69
RMR	1488.83 ± 154.08	1546.68 ± 176.47	1511.23 ± 212.92	1284.22 ± 136.96	1354.76 ± 184.15	1374.69 ± 203.75
BF (%)	17.45 ± 8.77	22.41 ± 9.56	23.55 ± 10.90	32.72 ± 9.72	36.14 ± 11.42	37.05 ± 11.27
BMI (kg/m^2)	21.85 ± 3.01	24.25 ± 5.64	24.24 ± 5.73	23.87 ± 5.05	26.35 ± 6.98	28.26 ± 9.00
CI	1.23 ± 0.09	1.24 ± 0.13	1.28 ± 0.13	1.27 ± 0.15	1.31 ± 0.16	1.33 ± 0.15
AVI	13.24 ± 2.05	15.39 ± 5.64	16.14 ± 4.94	14.74 ± 4.02	17.40 ± 5.07	18.64 ± 5.94
BAI	24.64 ± 4.58	26.48 ± 7.12	27.42 ± 8.41	31.58 ± 6.00	33.77 ± 6.82	36.63 ± 9.16

vs. normal; vs. prehypertensive.