1Assistant Professor, Community Medicine, Subharti Medical College, India
2Professor, Community Medicine, Subharti Medical College, India
3Assistant Professor Biostatistics, Subharti Medical College, India
4Associate Professor Medical Sociology, Subharti Medical College, India
5Assistant Professor, Community Medicine, Department of Community Medicine, Subharti Medical College, India
Online published on 7 February, 2018.
Body Mass Index (BMI) has been shown to be an important predictor of risk of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and associated with risk factors for NCDs.
To study the association of BMI and WHR with socio-demographic factors in a rural area of Meerut.
This community based cross sectional study was conducted among rural population aged ≥ 20 years in Parikshitgarh block, Meerut.
In this study according to BMI prevalence of overweight/obesity was 11.9% while by WHR it was 30.8%.
Obesity has no longer remained a problem of only urban, nuclear family and upper socio economic class but rural Indian belonging to middle class has also dragged into the so called “problem of affluent.
Rural population, BMI, Waist Hip Ratio(WHR), obesity
