Original scientific paper
Covariates and Prevalence of Obesity among Adult North Indian Population
Kajri Tandon
Satwanti Kapoor
Anup Kumar Kapoor
Abstract
The present study was aimed to investigate the prevalence of obesity and its covariates including age among adult
Khatri males and females. A total of 805 subjects (male=381, female=424) between age of 18 yr to 71+ yr residing in
Shahjahanpur city, Uttar Pradesh, India were studied cross sectionally. The study highlights the trend of obesity in the
population and also discusses in detail, the factors that cause it. An inverse relationship was obtained between level of
physical activity and different relative weight categories based on body mass index in both the sexes. Similar association
was observed in case of television watching time and overweight/obesity. With increase in hours of television watching
the prevalence of overweight/ obese also increased among both Khatri males and females.
Keywords
overweight; obese; covariates; adults; Khatri; Shahjahanpur
Hrčak ID:
68935
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Publication date:
24.6.2011.
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