Associations of Arm‐to‐Waist Ratio With Hypertension and Blood Pressure: The Role of Peripheral‐Central Body Size Distribution in U.S. Individuals
Zhang Fang, Zhanyang Zhou, Jian Zhang, Yuqing Zhang · 2026
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Fang and three co-authors test a body shape ratio against blood pressure in a study from two thousand twenty-six. The arm-to-waist ratio compares limb size to belly size, capturing how mass is spread. Standard measures like body mass index ignore that spread.
Over fifty thousand United States adults from two decades of national surveys were analyzed. Thirty percent had hypertension. As the ratio climbed across quarters, hypertension fell from about forty-eight to seventeen percent. Each small rise in the ratio meant lower odds of hypertension, while every standard measure pointed the other way. The pattern differed by sex and bent in nonlinear ways. Among those without hypertension, higher ratios also meant lower pressure readings. Distribution, the authors argue, matters.
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| CREATOR | Zhang Fang, Zhanyang Zhou, Jian Zhang, Yuqing Zhang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |