Open AccessOBESITY
Author(s) -
Abdul Malik,
MUNIR AHMAD AZHAR,
KHALIL AHMAD SHAHID
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
the professional medical journal/the professional medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2071-7733
pISSN - 1024-8919
DOI - 10.29309/tpmj/2009.16.03.2803
Subject(s) - medicine , obesity , demography , normal weight , body weight , pediatrics , overweight , sociology
Objectives: To assess frequency of obesity among college adolescent male and female students on BMI-Prime bases throughanthropometric. Design: Cross sectional study. Setting: At higher secondary colleges located in urban areas of Bahawalpur City. Period: FromFebruary 2009 to March 2009 Materials & Methods: Assessment of obesity among 400 college male & female students equally divided, agesfrom 16 to 23 years was carried out on BMI-Prime bases. Weight categories so achieved were stratified and labeled. Results: There were3(0.75%) severely under weight, 44(11%) under weight, 273(68.25%) normal, 68(17%) over weight, 9(2.25%) obese and 3(0.75%) wereclinically obese. There was no morbidly obese. No statistical gender difference for severely under weight and clinically obese was noted.However females were more under weight (p<0.05) while males were more over weight (P<0.05) and obese (P<0.05) when compared witheach other. C o n c l u s i o n : The adolescent female college students were under weight when compared to their male colleagues. The frequencyof obesity was higher among male students