(1.Department of Physical Education;2.School of Public Health,Nanchang University,Nanchang 330006,China) Abstract: By analyzing the data of physical checkup of 751 20-59 years old employees of a thermal power con-struction company, the authors probed into the correlation between body mass index (BWI)/waistline value (WV) and coronary heart disease, and revealed the following findings: the higher the BWI, the greater the WV will be, and the higher content of cholesterol (C) and triglyceride (TG); with the increase of BWI and WV, the incidence of coronary heart disease increases significantly; the differences in the number of obesity people, WV, WH and hyper-lipemia between the coronary heart disease group and the normal group are all statistically significant; there is a significant positive correlation between BWI/WV and coronary heart disease. Key words: obesity;body mass index;waistline value;coronary heart disease |