The results of a study of the interrelation of arterial pressure levels with excess body weight and the excessive consumption of table salt with food in women

: Interrelations between arterial pressure (AP) and overweight and excess consumption of table salt (TS) with food were examined in female workers of a large industrial enterprise within the framework of the All-Union cooperative program of AP control. It has been demonstrated that overweight is one of the main risk factors of AP. In hypertensive persons, overweight is recordable much more frequently whatever the age group. In normotensive workers, overweight was established in 19.2% of cases, whereas in high AP, in 39.8%. Studies into percentile distribution of body weight in the examinees with normal and high AP have shown that in hypertensive subjects, this indicator is higher than in normotensive ones in all the cut-off percentile level. No appreciable differences have been discovered in excess consumption of TS with food by normotensive and hypertensive women in any age groups or in the population on the whole.