Screening for Obesity in a rural Community Relevance of Indices

Manoj Yadav; Vijay Shankar Nigam; Vinod Kumar Srivastava

Volume : VII, Issue : XI, November - 2018

Screening for Obesity in a rural Community Relevance of Indices

Manoj Yadav, Vijay Shankar Nigam, Vinod Kumar Srivastava

Abstract :

Background: Obesity is a fast growing problem in the developing countries like India and is now known to be associated with increased health risk. Realizing the fact that the obesity in adolescent age group does not receive the deserved attention in the prevention and control programme, the present study was undertaken on 1342 subjects study.

Objective: 1. To study the prevalence of overweight and obesity in study population. 2. To find the association of body mass index (BMI) with important parameters like body fat and waist circumference.

Methodology: It was a cross sectional observational study. The study population comprised of individual of either sex over 15 years of age. The estimated sample size for present study is 1342. The subjects were screened by body mass index, waist circumference and body fat.

Results: The prevalence of obese as per WHO classification was 4.6% (Male–2.5%, Female–6.2%) whereas; prevalence of obese was 17.6% (Male–11.1%, Female–22.3%) as per Asia classification. The sensitivity and specificity of BMI was found to be 42.4% and 99.3% respectively. However, the sensitivity and specificity of WC was observed to be 80.8% and 91.6% respectively.

Conclusion: The prevalence of overweight and obesity is high among people in rural areas in Barabanki