@Article{, title={Environmental temperature variation and blood pressure of young normotensive students in college of science for women}, author={Noran jameel Ibraheem}, journal={Mesopotamia Environmental Journal بيئة وادي الرافدين}, volume={}, number={Special Issue C}, pages={1-9}, year={2017}, abstract={outdoor temperature variation to month’s changeshave been shown to affect blood pressure (BP) in adults. The aim of present study was to indicate whether BP value in collegian young women were influenced by environmental outdoor temperature. This study was carried out in academic year (2014- 2015) in Science College for women .The population of this study were composed of 120 women ,age ranged (18-28yrs) who followed for six months whereas BP routinely measured during (October- November)months, and through (December-January)months as well as in(February - march )months. The height and body weight were measured for subjects and the body mass index (BMI)was calculated, data analysis were carried out on SPSS software package(version 18),data are expressed mean±SD, a NOVA test used and p value > 0.05 were considered statistically significant, post hoc test was applied to multiple comparison among subjects to determine if any statistical difference in blood pressure whether systolic blood pressure(SBP) or diastolic blood pressure(DBP) based on environmental outdoor temperature or on BMI variation. The data of SBP and DBP based on variation of outdoor temperature through the months exhibited there were highly significant increase in systolic pressure (115.4±13.5mmHg)during cold months compared with the worm temperature months at significant difference ( p<0.005) as well there were highly significant increase (p<0.05) in systolic pressure in moderate temperature months (February-march) versus in the worm temperature months , but there were non-significant difference in mean of systolic blood pressure between thecold and moderate temperaturemonths. The mean of DBP showed a highly significant increase (p>0.05) in cold temperature month (80.7±1.5mmHg) compared with hot temperature month but there non-significant difference in the mean of DBP (78.6±9.7mmHg), (77.3±4.5mmHg) for women between worm and moderate temperature months respectively. The results of multiple comparison of BP across BMI variation among the months study showed that overweight subjects have higher significant mean of SBP than normal and underweight subjects in moderate temperature (February-march) months, while normal weight subjects exhibited highly increase in SBP versus those women in underweight group in higher temperature months(October-November)months, but the subjects with normal weight exhibited highly increase in DBP(77.2±9.3 mmHg) versus those obese and underweight women (66.8±5.2 mmHg), (70.4±9.8 mmHg) respectively in low temperature months Thus, the blood pressure in young normotensive women was not only affected by the variation in the outdoor temperature of the air during the months study but there could be other influenced factors like BMI, life style, nutrition pattern and emotional stress status.

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