Overweight and Obesity among Medical Students of Public Sector’s Institutes in Karachi, Pakistan

Mahmood, Sajid; Perveen, Tahira; Najjad, Muhammad Kazim Rahim; Yousuf, Naeem; Ahmed, Faizan; Ali, Nasir

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“…In the past, there have been studies to assess the nutritional status of medical students. In 2012, a Karachi based study reported a combined incidence of 27.1% of pre-obesity and obesity which was significantly associated with male gender [ 14 ]. In another study, 21% of medical students were reported to have BMI of 25 or more [ 3 ].…”

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Frequency of Pre-obesity and Obesity in Medical Students of Karachi and the Predisposing Lifestyle Habits

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Hussain

et al. 2019

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Background: The global incidence of pre-obesity and obesity is rising noticeably. Where medical students should be advocating healthy lifestyles, they are actually indulging in unhealthy eating habits and sedentary lifestyle. This is resulting in an increased incidence of obesity in this population.Methods: It was a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted from September 2018 till January 2019 in four medical colleges of Karachi. Sociodemographic profile, body mass index (BMI), food habits, and exercise routine of the students were recorded. Data was entered and analyzed using SPSS version 22 (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY).Results: The mean BMI of the study population was 21.717 ± 4.33 kg/m2 (range: 16.24–38.19). The mean age was 21.345 ± 1.4709 years with a minimum of 17 years and maximum of 25 years. The combined frequency of pre-obese and obese students was 33.2%. Among these, there were more women (60.6%) than men (39.3%). Among these pre-obese and obese students, 55% had breakfast rarely to sometimes, 47.9% took four or more meals per day, 39.3% consumed fast food thrice weekly or more, and 58.1% consumed soft-drinks/juices alternate to every day. Among the students who indulged into binge eating when stressed, 56.9% were pre-obese to obese. The nutritional status of the study sample was significantly associated with female gender, living status with parents, irregular breakfast, infrequent daily meals, increased consumption of fast food and beverages, decreased consumption of red meat, sedentary lifestyle, and altered eating habits when stressed.Conclusion: The incidence of pre-obesity and obesity is noticeably escalating among young adults. If this trend continues, obesity-related complications will form the major chunk of medical illnesses in the near future. Strategies are needed to nip this dilemma in the bud by indulging in healthy and clean eating habits and performing regular physical activity.

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Frequency of Pre-obesity and Obesity in Medical Students of Karachi and the Predisposing Lifestyle Habits

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“…Prevalence of overweight and obesity among medical students was found to be 14.7%, 12.4% respectively. 17 Similarly in a study conducted by Sree and Srujana among 207 medical students at Andhra Pradesh, had found that more than 55% of medical students were not involved in any sort of exercise. 18 Yilmaz et al conducted a study among 564 medical students also found that 70% of medical students did not care about gaining weight and not involved in any sort of exercise.…”

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Pattern and determinants of obesity among undergraduate medical students of Delhi

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Background: Obesity is one of the most serious public health challenge of 21st century. Overweight and obese children are more likely to develop non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like diabetes and cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) in their adolescent age group. For the last few years prevalence of obesity among adolescent has risen dramatically. According to few recent studies, prevalence of obesity is high among medical students. Aims and objectives of the research was to study the prevalence of obesity among undergraduate medical students and to assess the determinants of obesity.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 200 undergraduate medical students in a medical college of Delhi. A pre-designed, pretested and semi-structured interview schedule was used. And for anthropometric measurements, digital weighing scale for weight measurement, stadiometer for height measurement and non-stretchable inch tape for waist-circumference/hip-circumference (WC/HC) measurement. Results: A total of 200 medical students were surveyed for a period of 6 months. It was observed that according to World Health Organization (WHO) Asian – pacific classification of body mass index (BMI), 21% (42/200) were overweight and 29% (58/200) were obese. Among the study participants, socio demographic variables which were found to be associated with increased BMI were mother’s education (p value=0.02), father’s education (p value=0.01) and type of the area (p value=0.03). Occupation of mothers and father was not found to be significantly associated with the BMI.Conclusions: Medical students are our future doctors and role model for the community, so it is very important to modify the dietary and lifestyle factors in order to decrease the prevalence of overweight and obesity among medical students.

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“…El 64,2% de jóvenes limeños tiene exceso de peso y el 2,8%, desnutrición [5,6] . Existen algunos estudios relacionados con la malnutrición en los estudiantes de medicina humana de diferentes universidades de alrededor del mundo que evidencian que, a pesar de estar educándose para ser profesionales de la salud, no llevan un correcto estilo alimenticio por diferentes motivos, ya sea por la adaptación a las nuevas exigencias académicas y horarios o por temas económicos y socioculturales [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] .…”

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Características clínicas y epidemiológicas del estado nutricional en ingresantes a la facultad de medicina humana de una universidad privada

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Apolaya-Segura

2020

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Objetivos: determinar la frecuencia de malnutrición en los estudiantes ingresantes a la facultad de medicina humana de una universidad privada en el año 2018. Materiales y métodos: estudio transversal y retrospectivo, que consistió en la revisión de las historias clínicas de los estudiantes ingresantes en 2018 que pasaron evaluación médica en una facultad de Medicina de Lima, Perú. Se obtuvo frecuencias absolutas y relativas, se calculó Chi-cuadrado o Test exacto de Fisher para las variables cualitativas y Prueba de U de Mann – Whitney o T student para las cuantitativas. Se consideró como nivel de significancia al 95%. Resultados: La población de estudio fueron 263 personas; se obtuvo que el 53,99% tuvo malnutrición, conformado por un 36,5% con sobrepeso, el 11,03% obesidad y el 6.46% desnutrición. Se encontró asociación con malnutrición a: consumo de alcohol (p <0,001), tabaco (p <0,001), antecedentes familiares de diabetes tipo 2 (p < 0,001), distrito de procedencia (p= 0,014) y perímetro abdominal (p < 0,001). Conclusiones: más de la mitad de los estudiantes ingresantes a una facultad de medicina humana presentaron problemas de malnutrición, en mayor proporción por exceso de peso y estuvo asociada al riesgo cardiovascular por su aumentado perímetro abdominal y valores alterados en sus exámenes de laboratorio. Las variables asociadas a malnutrición fueron: consumo de alcohol, tabaco, antecedente familiar de diabetes tipo 2, distrito de procedencia y perímetro abdominal.

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Overweight and Obesity among Medical Students of Public Sector’s Institutes in Karachi, Pakistan

Cited by 13 publications

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Frequency of Pre-obesity and Obesity in Medical Students of Karachi and the Predisposing Lifestyle Habits

Frequency of Pre-obesity and Obesity in Medical Students of Karachi and the Predisposing Lifestyle Habits

Pattern and determinants of obesity among undergraduate medical students of Delhi

Características clínicas y epidemiológicas del estado nutricional en ingresantes a la facultad de medicina humana de una universidad privada

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