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Background: Body composition changes become evident in women as they pass through the transition phase of their life where their reproductive phase ends up at menopause. Women at menopause often experience redistribution of body fat particularly around the abdomen. Redistribution of body fat among postmenopausal women leads to various metabolic syndromes which lead to cardiovascular diseases even with controlled BMI. Material and Method: For the present cross-sectional study, 530 women (300 pre- and 230 postmenopausal) ranging in age from 30-60 years were personally interviewed and their anthropometric and physiological parameters were measured with standardized methods. Their height, weight, waist circumference, biceps, triceps, sub scapular and suprailiac measurements were taken and blood pressure was noted down. From these values, their waist-hip ratio, waiststature ratio, percent body fat, total body fat, pulse pressure, mean arterial pressure were calculated. Pearson’s correlation was computed to find out the association of BP with various anthropometric parameters. Results and Conclusion: Positive association of waist circumference, waist hip ratio, percent body fat and total body fat was observed with systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Present observations support the notion that hormonally-induced redistribution of adipose tissue at menopause in the intra-abdominal depots in post-menopausal women might be leading to adverse changes in the metabolic profile.

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