| 3 | Cross-sectional analysis of obesity and high blood pressure among undergraduate students of a university medical college in South India显示文摘Objective:To estimate the prevalence of obesity and high blood pressure among undergradu-ate students of a university medical college.Methods:A cross-sectional study was conducted at a medical college among 434 medical stu-dents.A questionnaire was used to collect basic demographic details,followed by anthropometric measurements.Body mass index(BMI)was classified according to the World Health Organization classification.Blood pressure was measured with a standard mercury sphygmomanometer and clas-sified according to the seventh report of the Joint National Committee(JNC VII)on prevention,detection,evaluation,and treatment of high blood pressure.Data were entered into and analyzed with SPSS version 15.0.Results:Nearly 65.0% of students had normal BMI,9.9% were underweight,17.9% were overweight,and 7.6% were obese.Obesity was more prevalent among males than among females on the basis of anthropometric variables such as BMI,waist-hip ratio,and waist-stature ratio,and this difference was found to be statistically significant.Blood pressure was in the normal range among 55.0% of the students,36.6% had blood pressure in the prehypertensive range,7.6% had blood pressure in the stage 1 category of the JNC VII criteria,and 0.5% had blood pressure in the stage 2 category of the JNC VII criteria.Among the students who had blood pressure greater than 140/90 mm Hg,63.0% were males and 37.0% were females,and this difference was statistically significant.Conclusion:The prevalence of obesity was 7.6% and that of high blood pressure was 8.1% among the medical students,which were higher than those reported in the literature for the same age group and warrant further evaluation. | Sravan Kumar Chenji Chythra R.Rao Saranya Sivanesan Veena Kamath Asha Kamath | 2018 | Family Medicine and Community Health2018，6，2： | 1 |
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