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The present study was based on data collected from 785 adults investigated from 2% randomly selected families of the students of American International University -Bangladesh. Among the investigated adult's 49.4 percent were suffering from different types of non-communicable diseases. A big group (85.3%) of NCDs affected people were the patients of diabetes. The different types of NCDs were significantly associated with socioeconomic variables. From factor analysis it was noted that marital status, age, occupation and income of the adults were responsible variables for diabetes. The responsible variables for heart disease were smoking habit, gender age and intake of restaurant food

Although half of annual mortality and almost half of the burden of disease in Bangladesh are for NCDs, less evidence are available to identify the variables responsible for NCDs. The aim of the present work is to identify the factors associated with NCDs in a representative sample of families of students of American International University -Bangladesh (AIUB). The most important variables responsible for the presence of non-communicable diseases among the Bangladeshi adults were age followed by marital status, body weight, level of education and other variables. These variables were identified by discriminant analysis. The study was based on 785 adult respondents from families of 2% randomly selected students. The students themselves collected the information through a pre-designed and pre-tested questionnaires. The collected information were residence, sex, age, height, weight, education, occupation, marital status, physical work, monthly income, family size, smoking habit and food habit along with suffering of any non-communicable disease and its treatment. Body Mass Index (BMI) was calculated from the collected data. The association of NCDs with social factors and BMI were observed using Chi-square test and hence identified the associated factors with NCDs.The prevalence of NCDs was observed among 49.4% respondents and 85.3% of them were exclusively diabetic. Another 4% were suffering from diabetes and heart disease. Among the NCDs affected respondents 91.2% belonged to obese and overweight group of respondents. The odd ratio indicated that the prevalence of diabetes was 1.76 times higher among obese and overweight group of respondents compared to other groups.

The present analysis was based on data regarding level of obesity of 662 children and adolescents of 560 families of students of American International University-Bangladesh. The children and adolescents were classified by level of obesity, where level of obesity were measured by percentiles of BMI. It was observed that, among 662 children and youth 465 were in underweight group. Obesity and severe obesity were observed among 9.1 percent children and adolescents. Among the obese and severely obese group, 53.% killed their time by watching television and another 26.7% spent their time by doing other works including games and sports. Obesity and severe obesity were associated with time spent by the children and adolescents. Among these groups 31.7% were suffering from diabetes. Diabetes and level of obesity were significantly associated.Among obese and severe obese group, around 42% were habituated in taking restaurant food and these two characters are also significantly associated. Some socioeconomic factors of parents are also associated with level of obesity. Pearson's Contingency Coefficient ( C= 0.281 ) showed that the degree of association between obesity and fathers' occupation was higher followed by the degree of association with father's education and family income. Factor analysis was done to identify the most important factors for the variation in the data set under study. It was seen that fathers' education was the most important variable for the variation in obesity levels followed by mothers' education and fathers' occupation.

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