We studied 351 randomly selected healthy postmenopausal women, with mean age of 55.43 +/- 2.75 years and mean body mass index (BMI) of 27.5 +/- 4.78 kg/m2, to evaluate the frequency of BsmI polymorphism (by restriction fragment length polymorphism-polymerase chain reaction) in the VDR gene and to find out whether there is an association between this polymorphism and BMI, total fat volume and visceral fat (as determined by total body dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry), blood pressure, lipid profile (total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, triglycerides) glucose and fasting insulin in the whole group, as well as subgroups of obese and non-obese women.
C0005823
Blood Pressure