The prevalence of obesity and its relationship with hypertension among women
Journal Title: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CURRENT RESEARCH - Year 2017, Vol 9, Issue 8
Abstract
Introduction: Overweight and obesity are the fifth leading risk of deaths, resulting in around 2.8 million deaths of adults globally every year. Studies show also in India obesity and overweight are more common especially among women. Most of the women not aware about the co-morbid effects of these. Among various co-morbid condition hypertension also one of the condition developed due to obesity and overweight. Methods: Cross sectional survey design was used for this study. By using convenience sampling method 300 females were selected for the study. The data was collected using semi structured questionnaires. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used for data analysis. Results: The result shows that 36% of women were having obesity their BMI value is more than 25, and 11% of women under weight, only 23 % of samples were having normal BMI value. Based on waist circumference 43.7% of women were comes under obesity and 33% of them were having overweight. And 69 women were having hypertension. There is a significant association with the vigorous physical activity with BMI and WC and moderate physical activity outside home with BMI value but there is no any association with WC.There is a significant association between BMI and WC with hypertension. Conclusions: More than half of the women having abnormal body mass index(BMI) and abnormal deviation from normal blood pressure. The study concluded that rural women also under high risk for getting obesity related physical problems.
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Ekka Anju, K. , Aparna, R. , Krishnamurthy, Bage Uday, S. and Gomathi, A.
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