A STUDY ON PREVALENCE & DETERMINANTS OF OVERWEIGHT/OBESITY AMONG MEDICAL C0LLEGE STUDENTS IN KANCHEEPURAM DISTRICT
Journal Title: National Journal of Research in Community Medicine - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 0
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Obesity is an important disease of the new epidemic wave and is an emerging serious health problem. It is increasing in number and overtakes the communicable diseases with respect to morbidity and mortality. Nutritional transition from typical carbohydrate diet to junk food dietary habits is taking place in India particularly among young adults like medical students. Overweigh/Obesity is one of the important risk factor for many chronic diseases. Overweight and obesity are preventable risk factors.AIM AND OBJECTIVES: 1.To study the prevalence of overweight and obesity among students of Sree Balaji medical college.2.To find out the association of risk factors causing over weight and obesity. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A Cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in Sree Balaji Medical College using a pretested questionnaire for data collectionand anthropometric measurements of the students taken.462 medical students who were willing to participate were included in the study. RESULT: The prevalence of overweight and obesity among 462 medical students is 27.9% (129) and 8.4% (39) respectively. The frequency of consumption of junk food per week (p=0.000) and hours spending in sedentary life per day (p=0.000) is high among the overweight and obese students when compared with underweight and normal weight students. CONCLUSION: Prevalence of overweight and obesity is high among the medical students who are spending more hours per day in sedentary life and who are eating junk food more frequently in a week. Hence awareness should be created among the students about their ideal weight; factors influencing their weight gain and promote habit of doing exercise among students.
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Dhanuraja V. , GOPALAKRISHNAN S, Umadevi R.
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