Epidemiology of General Obesity and Abdominal Obesity among People in Hilly Areas of North India: A Hospital Based Study
Journal Title: National Journal of Community Medicine - Year 2017, Vol 8, Issue 5
Abstract
Background & objectives: In to-day’s world, obesity is a lifestyle disease that can kill. This study was conducted to assess the prevalence of general and abdominal obesity among adult outdoor patient in Ur-ban and Rural Health Training Cen-tre, Department of Community Medicine, Veer Chandra Singh Garhwali Government Medical Sci-ences and Research Institute, Srina-gar, Uttarakhand. Methods: A total of 200 patients aged ≥20 years were randomly se-lected were studied. Simplified questionnaire was used for inter-viewing participant and anthropo-metric measurement was done. Def-inition of overweight and obesity given by the World Health Organi-zation (WHO); Asia Pacific Guide-lines; and WHO criteria for Euro-pids were used. Results: Participants aged from 20–74 years and 56.5% were females. Prevalence of abdominal obesity was found 38.5% (24.1% for men and 49.6% for women, p<0.05) us-ing WHO Asia Pacific Guidelines. By WHO obesity criteria for euro-pids, the prevalence of abdominal obesity was 19.5% (11.5% for men and 25.7% for women, p<0.05).Multiple logistic regression analysis showed women and not working patients had a higher risk of general obesity and abdominal obesity than working men with p <0.05. Conclusions: The prevalence of ab-dominal, as well as of general obesi-ty, was high using WHO Asia Pacif-ic Guidelines. Gender and occupa-tion were risk factors associated with obesity. Suitable healthcare strategies are needed for combating obesity.
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Arti Gupta, Venkatashiva Reddy, Vandhana Semwal, Amit Kumar Singh
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