Nutritional status and effect of physical activity on anthropmetric characteristics of Bengalee Muslim adolescents boys of North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India
Journal Title: International Journal of Experimental Research and Review - Year 2016, Vol 5, Issue 4
Abstract
A cross-sectional study of 522 Bengalee Muslim boys aged 10-17 years of Deganga, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India, was undertaken to study their age differences in nutritional status and effect of physical activity on anthropometric characteristics. The subjects were classified into eight age groups: 10-10.9 years (n = 56), 11-11.9 (n = 63), 12-12.9 (n = 65), 13- 13.9 (n = 77), 14-14.9 (n = 84), 15-15.9 (n = 71), 16-16.9 (n = 60), 17-17.9 (46). Subjects were also classified into two groups, sedentary (NPE, n=240) and non sedentary (PE, n= 282). Individuals falling below the age specific fifth percentile of the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES I) were defined as undernourished. All the anthropometric variables were measured by the following standard anthropometric procedure as recommended by Lohman et al., (1988). Body mass index (BMI) – a popular indicator of generalised adiposity was calculated following the formula of World Health Organization (1995). Skin fold equation of Slaughter et al. (1988) for predicting body fat was utilized to estimate percent body fat (PBF). The overall rate of undernutrition was 52.49%. Results reveals that studied boys, who did not undertook regular physical exercise (NPE), had significantly greater amount of subcutaneous adiposity, PBF, fat mass index (FMI) and sum of 5 skin folds (S5S) than those who undertook regular physical exercise (PE). But the BMI values are similar between sedentary and non sedentary boys group.
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Argina Khatun; Mithu Bhadra; Ashish Mukhopadhyay; Kaushik Bose
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