TY - JOUR AU - Tadla, Monika AU - Skolarczyk, Justyna Magdalena AU - Pekar, Joanna AU - Olszewska, Anna AU - Skórzyńska-Dziduszko, Katarzyna PY - 2017/09/10 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Increased pre-diabetic blood glucose levels as a risk factor of elevated systolic, but not diastolic, arterial pressure JF - Journal of Education, Health and Sport JA - J Educ Health Sport VL - 7 IS - 9 SE - Research Articles DO - UR - https://apcz.umk.pl/JEHS/article/view/4927 SP - 421-429 AB - <p><strong>Introduction. </strong>The Finnish Diabetes Risk Score (FINDRISC) assesses the 10-year type 2 diabetes risk in adults by identifying individuals with overweight or obesity, inadequate physical activity, poor nutrition, or a family or personal history of hyperglycemia.</p><p><strong>Aim. </strong>The objective of the study was to analyze the effect of personal history of increased (pre-diabetic) venous blood glucose on body weight, waist circumference, the magnitude of arterial pressure, and the total FINDRISC score of randomly selected individuals.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods. </strong>The study was conducted in years 2015/2016 on 190 individuals – 96 women and 94 men. We determined FINDRISC score and measured blood pressure twice. The results were analyzed in STATISTICA 10 at p &lt; 0.05.</p><p><strong>Results. </strong>Interestingly, subjects with personal history of increased blood glucose had significantly higher systolic blood pressure (p=0.03), but not diastolic blood pressure, than subjects with history of normoglycemia. Both waist circumference (p=0.01) and total FINDRISC scores (p&lt;0.001) were significantly elevated in the first group. Subjects with personal history of increased venous blood glucose showed a strong tendency (p = 0.055) towards higher body mass index (BMI) values than subjects with history of normoglycemia.</p><p><strong>Discussion. </strong>Cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction(CAD) seems to be a main reason for hypertension in early stages of glucose dysmetabolism. <strong></strong></p><p><strong>Conclusion. </strong>Increased pre-diabetic blood glucose level is an important risk factor of elevated systolic pressure, whereas diastolic pressure seems to be not affected by this factor.</p> ER -