Research Article

The Different Effects of BMI and WC on Organ Damage in Patients from a Cardiac Rehabilitation Program after Acute Coronary Syndrome

Table 4

The correlation between vital clinical variables and BMI or WC before and after CRP.

VariablesBMIWC
Before CRP After CRP Before CRP After CRP

SBP (mmHg)0.287 0.025*0.461 0.000**0.205 0.113 0.371 0.003**
DBP (mmHg)0.279 0.029*0.542 0.000**0.184 0.157 0.309 0.015*
FBG (mmol/L)0.249 0.053 0.083 0.525 0.305 0.017**0.154 0.237
TC (mg/dL)0.071 0.589 −0.043 0.740 0.174 0.179 0.159 0.220
TG (mg/dL)0.177 0.173 0.091 0.487 0.027 0.838 0.109 0.402
LDL_C (mg/dL)0.147 0.260 0.097 0.458 0.334 0.009**0.204 0.115
HDL_C (mg/dL)−0.235 0.068 −0.235 0.069 −0.256 0.046*−0.292 0.022*
UA (umol/L)0.149 0.251 0.093 0.476 0.369 0.003**0.171 0.187
LVDd (mm)−0.023 0.863 −0.095 0.559 0.017 0.899 0.044 0.786
IVSd (mm)0.134 0.302 0.273 0.089 0.375 0.003**0.451 0.004**
LVPWd (mm)0.179 0.166 0.271 0.091 0.309 0.016*0.468 0.002**
EF (%)0.128 0.324 0.182 0.262 −0.101 0.439 0.036 0.824
FS (%)0.072 0.582 0.225 0.163 −0.086 0.508 0.029 0.861
Treadmill exercise time (min)−0.048 0.837 −0.269 0.107 −0.129 0.579 −0.164 0.333
Metabolic equivalents−0.247 0.279 −0.267 0.110 −0.213 0.353 −0.211 0.210
Maximum net ST segment deviation (mm)0.008 0.973 −0.022 0.897 −0.103 0.656 0.028 0.870
DTS−0.123 0.595 −0.095 0.575 −0.168 0.466 −0.082 0.630

Notes: *correlation is significant at the 0.05 level. **Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level.
CRP: cardiac rehabilitation program; BMI: body mass index; WC: waist circumference; HR: heart rate; SBP: systolic blood pressure; DBP: diastolic blood pressure; FBG: fasting blood glucose; LDL_C: low density lipoprotein cholesterol; TC: total cholesterol; TG: triglycerides; HDL_C: high density lipoprotein cholesterol; UA: serum uric acid; LVDd: left ventricular and diastolic dimension; IVSd: interventricular septal thickness at diastole; LVPWd: left ventricular posterior wall at diastole; EF: ejection fraction; FS: fractional shortening; DTS: Duke treadmill score.