Correlation of hsCRP with Edmonton’s Obesity Staging System: A Cross Sectional Study

Abstract

Background: Obesity comes with a huge number of co-morbidities such as type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM)
and cardiovascular diseases. The most usually used factor for segregating different degree of adiposity is
Body Mass Index (BMI) and Waist Circumference (WC).Despite being a convenient and commonly used
method it doesn’t show the occurrence of essential obesity-related co-morbidity & deplete quality of life.
Hence, Edmonton’s Obesity Staging System has been proposed which incorporates such co-morbidities and
functional status of individual. Serum levels of high-sensitivity CRP (hs-CRP) can be calculated using highly
sensitive assays and has ability to detect augmented inflammation in vasculature. Thus, chronic systemic
inflammation linked to the metabolic syndromes. The Study aims to correlate such factors.
Aims: To estimate hsCRP levels in obese population.
Material and Method: After thorough anthropometric and biochemical evaluation obese individuals will
be classified accordingly into Edmonton’s obesity staging system and their hs-CRP will be evaluated and
then correlation between two will be done.
Result: A linear correlation between hs-CRP and Edmonton’s Obesity Staging System is expected.
Conclusion: With the help of correlation between hs-CRP and EOSS co-morbidities of obese individuals
can be tracked efficiently