International Journal of Physiology
  • Year: 2017
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 2

Comparative Trends in Body Mass Index (BMI), in First Year Medical Students, in a Gap of Ten Years

  • Author:
  • Neeru Garg1,, Punam Verma2, Sunita Mittal3, Nidhi Jain4, Priyanka Gupta4
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 195 to 197

1Associate Prof, Department of Physiology, SGRRIM &HS,Dehradun

2Prof, Department of Physiology, SGRRIM &HS,Dehradun

3Assoc Prof, Department of Physiology, AIIMS, Rishikesh

4Post Graduate Student, Department of Physiology, SGRRIM &HS,Dehradun

*Corresponding author: Neeru Garg, Associate Prof, Department of Physiology, SGRRIM &HS,Dehradun

Online published on 18 July, 2017.

Abstract

Worldwide obesity has more than doubled since 1980. A large number of studies have explored the relationship between Body Mass Index (BMI) and mortality. Objective of this study was to screen out the overweight and obese category in present students and to evaluate the changing trends in a gap of ten years.

Total participants (17–20 years of age) were divided into two groups of 400 each& were categorized into BMI based, normal, overweight and obese groups.

In the last four years about 43% students were overweight and obese while ten years ago data showed 21% students in these categories.

Comparing both the groups, it can be concluded that, a significant increase in overweight and obese category of students over a period of ten years is observed.

Keywords

body mass index, overweight, obese