Association of physical activity, body mass index and dietary pattern among medical undergraduate students of Raipur Chhattisgarh: A cross-sectional study

Dr. Mini Sharma; Dr. Hemant Sharma; Dr.Shubhra Agrawal Gupta

Volume : VI, Issue : XI, November - 2017

Association of physical activity, body mass index and dietary pattern among medical undergraduate students of Raipur Chhattisgarh: A cross-sectional study

Dr. Mini Sharma, Dr. Hemant Sharma, Dr. Shubhra Agrawal Gupta

Abstract :

Introduction: Consumption of high calorie food and lack of sufficient physical activity in college going students in future may cause several non communicable diseases. So this study was undertaken to know the pattern of physical activity, Body mass index(BMI) and dietary pattern of undergraduate medical students of Raipur city.

Material and methods: This Cross-sectional study was done on 150 medical students of second MBBS batch in pt JNM medical college, Raipur in month of august 2015.For assessing physical activity, global status report 2014 was used. Appropriate statistical analysis was used in this study.

Results- In Students with sufficient physical activity, 83.1% were normal in weight and only 16.9% were overweight. 70.6% students were overweight due to high calorie food intake.

Conclusion-This study observes an inverse relationship between physical activity and BMI and a positive relationship between diet and BMI.