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- Title
To Evaluate the Prevalence and Screening of Obesity Among Adolescents.
- Authors
Sandhu, Annie; Pal, Dharm; Singh, Dharminder; Sandhu, Kuldip Singh; Aujla, Savvy
- Abstract
Obesity, usually self-diagnosable is the main culprit risk for prevalent non-communicable diseases among adolescents. In developing countries, obesity has caused tremendous affect with its roots in children and adolescents. Our society has followed the western countries and newly developed technology. This has led to a sedentary society and prone to noncommunicable diseases. As prevention is better than cure, a timely intervention and screening the adolescents/ children at a school level is the necessity of hour. We conducted a school based cross sectional study among adolescents with an aim to assess the prevalence and screening of obesity in adolescents. We have used three reference standards, Tim j Cole, NHANES-1 and EPHA, which were based on BMI criteria. Anova test was used to assess level of significance in these reference standards. In our study a total of 2645 (males=1625, females=1020) adolescents had participated. Socio-demographically, they were having urban (1459) and rural (186) distribution. Maximum males were in 12 age group (425) years while girls aged 11(292) group. Obesity prevalence was 9.67% (n=256), 9.41% (249), 9.86% (n=261) respectively in Tim J Colet al, NHANES-1 and EHPA. Eliz health pathway of adolescents. EHPA has shown under nutrition of 6.7% (69) in adolescents girls and 8.73% (n=142) in adolescents boys. The prevalence of obesity was higher in male 11.01% (n=179) as compared to female 5.58% (n=57) adolescents. During this study, EHPA has shown to be an easy, appropriate and established standards for evaluate the prevalence and screening the both obesity and overweight among adolescents.
- Subjects
ADOLESCENT obesity; TEENAGE boys; TEENAGE girls; NON-communicable diseases; AGE groups
- Publication
Journal of Cardiovascular Disease Research (Journal of Cardiovascular Disease Research), 2022, Vol 13, Issue 2, p933
- ISSN
0975-3583
- Publication type
Article