Overweight and obesity in affluent school children of Punjab

Sidhu, Sharda; Kaur, Navdeep; Kaur, Ramanjeet

doi:10.1080/03014460600578631

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“…M et al reported that risk of increasing childhood obesity has direct relationship with parental obesity. [12][13][14][15] All these findings were similar to the several studies conducted in India as well as worldwide. Very glaringly most of these studies were conducted in urban areas.…”

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Obesity: changing outlook of Indian adolescent children: emerging and worrying trend

Prashanth

Latha

Babu

et al. 2017

Int J Contemp Pediatr

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Background: Obesity, a key risk factor for the chronic and non-communicable disease, has become a serious public health concern in both developed and developing countries. WHO has designated obesity as global epidemic. In 2014, 41 million children under the age of 5 years were found to be overweight or obese. Most of the world’s population lives in countries where overweight and obesity kills more people than underweight. Objectives of the study were to know the prevalence of obesity and factors associated with obesity in rural and urban part of India.Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in three high schools of rural and urban part of Davangere district, central Karnataka, India with a sample of 918 adolescent school children. Pre-designed questionnaire was used to elicit the required information. Height and weight was measured. Body mass index was calculated. Results: The prevalence of overweight and obesity was observed to be 10.1% and 0.5% respectively. In rural part the prevalence was 7.1% and in urban area it is 12.6%. Overweight/obesity was significantly associated with family history of overweight/obesity, dietary habit, eating junk foods, sedentary life styles including watching television, lack of physical exercise and not participating in outdoor games.Conclusions: Overweight and obesity thought to be disease of developed and affluent nation. But in changing trends, countries like India especially rural areas, it’s alarming to see such results. Adopting the healthy lifestyles, food habits and regular exercise can reduce the risk of becoming overweight and obese.

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Obesity: changing outlook of Indian adolescent children: emerging and worrying trend

Prashanth

Latha

Babu

et al. 2017

Int J Contemp Pediatr

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“…The result similar to as reported by Khadilkar et al 16 Prevalence of obesity among male 17(20.2%) was slightly higher vs. female 16(15.4%) but statistically not significant and similar to the result reported by Khadilkar et al 12.4 vs 9.9%, Harish Ranjani et al, and Sidhu et al 5 vs 6 %. 9,16,17 There was statistically significant difference (p <0.001) between urban and rural groups for the distribution of BMI categories A and B.…”

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Prevalence of obesity among urban and rural school going adolescents of Vadodara, India: a comparative study

Pathak

Modi

Labana

et al. 2018

Int J Contemp Pediatr

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Background: Obesity is a major global problem among children. India has paradox of having both undernutrition and obesity as a major problem. This epidemic of obesity is also affecting rural population. It has both short and long term adverse health outcome.Methods: The present study is a cross-sectional, observational and questionnaire-based study conducted in urban and rural school going adolescents.Results: 188 subjects (89 rural and 99 urban school) school were enrolled. 17.6%(33), 20.2%(38), 59%(111) and 3.2%(6) children were obese, overweight, normal and underweight respectively. 65.22% of urban males & 62.26% females were either obese or overweight as compared to 15.78% of rural males and 3.92% females (p<0.0001). OR was 17.7 (95% CI of 7.6 to 40.7) in favor of urban residence. Statistically significant (p<0.05) differences is found in term of annual income of family, frequency of physical training sessions conducted in schools, frequency of restaurant & school canteen food. No statistically significant association was found between two categories (higher BMI & normal BMI) with other factors viz. breakfast before school, liking for fast food, involvement in outdoor sports, operating gadgets during meals and having obese family members.Conclusions: Obesity and overweight is more prevalent in urban adolescent. There is no difference among male and female group. There is tendency of high frequency of obesity and overweight among those adolescents who have higher annual family income, frequency of restaurant and school canteen food and lesser frequency of physical training sessions conducted in schools.

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“…After adjusting for individual sociodemographic characteristics, Punjab was found to have the highest average BMI and the highest prevalence of overweight. This may be due, at least in part, to agricultural advances that have made the area a net food exporter (Tiwana et al, 2005), as well as cultural shifts in which sedentary behavior and a calorie-dense diet have gained wide appeal (Sidhu et al, 2006). Many states in India's northeast, namely Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram, and Assam, had prevalences of both overweight and underweight which were below the national mean.…”

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Geography of underweight and overweight among women in India: A multilevel analysis of 3204 neighborhoods in 26 states

Ackerson

Kawachi

Barbeau

et al. 2008

Economics & Human Biology

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We investigated the geographic distribution and the relationship with neighborhood wealth of underweight and overweight in India. Using multilevel modeling techniques, we calculated statespecific smoothed shrunken state residuals of overweight and underweight, neighborhood and state variation of nutritional status, and the relationships between neighborhood wealth and nutritional status of 76,681 women living in 3204 neighborhoods in 26 Indian states. We found a substantial variation in overweight and underweight at the neighborhood and state levels, net of what could be attributed to individual-level factors. Neighborhood wealth was associated with increased levels of overweight and decreased levels of underweight, and was found to modify the relationship between personal living standard and nutritional status. These findings suggest that interventions to address the double burden of undernutrition and overnutrition in India must take into account state and neighborhood characteristics in order to be successful.

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Overweight and obesity in affluent school children of Punjab

Cited by 58 publications

References 11 publications

Obesity: changing outlook of Indian adolescent children: emerging and worrying trend

Obesity: changing outlook of Indian adolescent children: emerging and worrying trend

Prevalence of obesity among urban and rural school going adolescents of Vadodara, India: a comparative study

Geography of underweight and overweight among women in India: A multilevel analysis of 3204 neighborhoods in 26 states

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