Association between modified ankle-brachial pressure index and indices of adiposity

Objectives: Obesity is one of the important risk factors for peripheral arterial disease (PAD). Ankle-brachial pressure index (ABPI) a non-invasive test, which may be used earlier detection PAD. ABPI in healthy obese/overweight subjects has not been studied. In present study, we investigated correlation adiposity indices with ABPI. We have also compared by three different methods subjects. Materials and Methods: Weight, height, body mass (BMI), waist circumference, hip circumference (HC), height ratio, skin fold thickness, fat percentage were measured 45 overweight/obese males. Ankle brachial pressures Doppler ultrasound based method. was calculated using high ankle (ABPI-HIGH), mean (ABPI-MEAN), low (ABPI-LOW) methods. Results: BMI HC show positive significant ABPI-LOW ( P = 0.028, 0.046, respectively). Significant difference observed between ABPI-HIGH 0.003). ABPI-MEAN ABPILOW significantly < 0.001). Conclusion: There obesity ABPI-LOW. could more appropriate method contrastingly direct PAD apparently obese.