Background: Development of obesity and central obesity is associated with simultaneous increase in many biological risk factors such as changes in blood pressure levels and glucose and lipid abnormalities the most important predictors of acute myocardial infarction. Objectives: The purpose of study was to asses of body mass index, blood pressure, plasma cholesterol; diabetes in males age matched general population from urban and rural area, has been studied and compared in India. Methods: Population based epidemiological studies were done in males to identify cardiovascular risk factors in urban and rural India. Results: It was observed that cardiovascular risk factors such as truncal obesity, hypertension, dysglycemia and dyslipidemia were found in urban populations when compared with the rural populations of India in male subjects in the same age group range from 20-40 years. Statistical analysis was done by using Student’s unpaired‘t’ test and was found to be statistically significant (P<0.05). Data were expressed as mean±SD. Conclusion: Thus, urban environments may be at a higher risk of CHD due to the confluence of higher lipoprotein levels, the central obesity, glucose intolerance, dyslipidemia as “metabolic syndrome,” with environmental influences that lead to weight gain, rise in plasma cholesterol and blood pressure levels.
