Inam-ul Haq, Ghulam Mujtaba Nasir, Haroon Rashid Khan, Muhammad Afzal.
An Audit of Overweight, Obesity and Central Obesity Among Students of a Private Medical College.
Ann Pak Inst Med Sci Jan ;12(1):36-40.

Objective: To assess the trend of overweight, obesity andcentral obesity among students of a private medical college. Setting and duration of study: This Cross sectional study was conducted in Islamabad Medical and Dental College, Islamabad, from 1st March to 1st June 2015. Materials and Methods: In this study 149 students of Islamabad medical and dental college, selected randomly from 1st year to final year MBBS students were included. In all these students body weight and height were measured and body mass index (BMI) and central obesity was calculated on the basis of waist to hip ratio and waist to height ratio on the basis of WHO standards. The data was entered and analyzed through SPSS v. 20. Results: The mean age of the students in the study sample was 21.2047 years with standard deviation of 1.387 yrs. There were 20.13%male and 79.87% females participants. The mean weight was 57.345 ± 12.528 kg and mean height was 165.0 ± 8.750 cm.The mean BMI was 20.857±4.4813 with minimum and maximum values of 13.92 and 47.60 respectively. The mean waist circumference was 75.249 ± 10.553 cm and mean hip circumference was 87.790 ±10.317 cm. It was noted that on the basis of BMI 59.7% subjects had normal weight, 28.9% were underweight,9.4% were overweight while just 2.0% were obese. Based on waist to hip ratio, 68.5% were normal while 31.5% had central obesity and according to waist to height ratio 87.2% were normal while 12.8% were centrally obese. There significantly higher proportion of underweight students among female students (34.2% vs. 6.7%, P-value = 0.000) as compared to male students. Conclusion: According to the results 59.7% subjects under study had normal weight, 28.9% were under weight, 9.4% over weight while just 2.0% were obese. Based on waist to hip ratio, 31.5% and on the basis of waist to height ratio, 12.8% were centrally obese.

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