The Correlation between Body Mass Index Physical Fitness Level and Systolic Blood Pressure in Late Adolescent in School of Nursing Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta

Abstract

— Lately, the dynamic fast pace of modern world has led people to live a sedentary lifestyle, which is defined as lifestyle with lack of physical activity. Such kind of lifestyle would have an effect on Body Mass Index (BMI), Physical Fitness Level (PFL) and Systolic Blood Pressure (SBP). The fact that our future sustainability depends much on survival of the late adolescent makes it important for us, to prevent them from any diseases in the future. However, there are only few studies about detection of BMI, PFL and SBP of late adolescent. This study aim is to explore the correlation between BMI, PFL and SBP through a descriptive, correlation study with cross-sectional approach. It involved 32 female and male late adolescents as the research participants with age range between 10-24 years old selected through a total sampling. The exclusion criteria were the late adolescent with cardiovascular and respiration disorder. Univariate and bivariate analyses were used to analyze the data. Based on data, it revealed that there is no correlation between BMI, PFL and SBP with p value of 0,20 and p value of 0,75 (p >0,05).