OBESITY

Abstract

Objectives: To assess frequency of obesity among college adolescent male and female students on BMI-Prime bases through
anthropometric. Design: Cross sectional study. Setting: At higher secondary colleges located in urban areas of Bahawalpur City. Period: From
February 2009 to March 2009 Materials & Methods: Assessment of obesity among 400 college male & female students equally divided, ages
from 16 to 23 years was carried out on BMI-Prime bases. Weight categories so achieved were stratified and labeled. Results: There were
3(0.75%) severely under weight, 44(11%) under weight, 273(68.25%) normal, 68(17%) over weight, 9(2.25%) obese and 3(0.75%) were
clinically obese. There was no morbidly obese. No statistical gender difference for severely under weight and clinically obese was noted.
However females were more under weight (p<0.05) while males were more over weight (P<0.05) and obese (P<0.05) when compared with
each other. C o n c l u s i o n : The adolescent female college students were under weight when compared to their male colleagues. The frequency
of obesity was higher among male students