Erythrocyte Antioxidant Enzymes And Blood Pressure In Relation

      Mahidol University Annual Research Abstracts 2000 571 ERYTHROCYTE ANTIOXIDANT ENZYMES AND BLOOD PRESSURE IN RELATION TO OVERWEIGHT AND OBESE THAI IN BANGKOK Duangkamol Viroonudomphol1, Praneet Pongpaew1, Rungsunn Tungtrongchitr1, Benjaluck Phonrat2, Venus Supawan1 Niyomsri Vudhivai1 and Frank Peter Schelp3 1Department of Tropical Nutrition and Food Science, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, 2Department of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University,3Department of Epidemiology, Institute of Social Medicine, Free University, Berlin, Germany.

Key words : Antioxidant enzymes, anthropometry, obestity                     The specific activities of antioxidant enzymes, (e.g. superoxide dismutases (SOD), glutathione peroxidase (GPX) and catalase (CAT)), anthropometric measurements, including waist/hip ratio of 48 male and 167 female overweight (body mass index (BMI) ³³ 25.0 kg/m2) compared with a 26 male and 80 female control group (BMI = 18.

5-24.9 kg/m2) Thai volunteers who attended the Out-patient Department, General Practice Section, Rajvithi Hospital, Bangkok, for a physical check-up during March-October, 1998, were investigated. There was a slightly significant difference between the median age of the sexes. The medians of height, weight, and waist/hip ratio in males were significantly higher than those in female overweight and obese subjects.

The median of arm circumference (AC), mid arm muscle circumference (MAMC) in males was significantly higher than those in female overweight and obese subjects (p4 IU/gHb) was found in both sexes (64.5% in males and 64.5% in females). In obese subjects (BMI ³³ 30.

0 kg/m2), there were significantly positive relationships between systolic and diastolic blood pressure, systolic blood pressure and waist/hip ratio, and SOD could be related to weight, BMI as well as GPX and CAT, whereas the opposite result was observed for age and SOD. (Submitted to Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health 1999.)
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