Add to ORKGOverweight and obesity are important determinants of health leading to adverse metabolic changes and increase the risk of non-communicable diseases. Following the increase in adult obesity, the proportion of overweight and obese children and adolescents has also been increasing. Erroneous life style and food habits are mainly responsible for rising graph of obesity. Hence, the present study was undertaken to study the magnitude of overweight/obesity and its correlates among school-age children ranging from 5-15 years, on the basis of 85th and 95th percentile of body mass index (BMI). Result showed the prevalence of overweight and obesity as 10.33% and 3.33%, respectively. Among number of other correlates related with life style, Kapha predo...
Background: The problem of obesity is confined not only in adults but also among the children and ad...
Background: Obesity is associated with an increased risk of morbidity and mortality as well as reduc...
Background: Nutritional and epidemiological evolution over the past 3 decades has resulted in weight...
WHO refers obesity as a global epidemic because of rapid increase in the number of overweight and ob...
Background: There is reduction of childhood under nutrition and at the same time a gradual increase...
Background: The world health organization has described obesity as one of today’s most neglected pub...
Background: Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in India in the 21st Century, affecting 5% of t...
Background: Childhood obesity is emerging as one of the serious public health problems. It has becom...
Background: Obesity is defined by WHO “as a condition of abnormal or excessive fat accumulation in a...
Childhood obesity has become a major public health challenge in developing countries including India...
Background: Earlier obesity was a disease of the affluent but with changing trend, modernization, se...
Introduction: Overweight and obesity among children and adolescents has increased significantly in t...
Background: Childhood obesity is a state of over nutrition with long term complications such as hype...
Lifestyle is considered to be an important determinant of health and sickness. It has also a great r...
Background: With a rising trend of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in the present world, overw...
Background: The problem of obesity is confined not only in adults but also among the children and ad...
Background: Obesity is associated with an increased risk of morbidity and mortality as well as reduc...
Background: Nutritional and epidemiological evolution over the past 3 decades has resulted in weight...
WHO refers obesity as a global epidemic because of rapid increase in the number of overweight and ob...
Background: There is reduction of childhood under nutrition and at the same time a gradual increase...
Background: The world health organization has described obesity as one of today’s most neglected pub...
Background: Obesity has reached epidemic proportions in India in the 21st Century, affecting 5% of t...
Background: Childhood obesity is emerging as one of the serious public health problems. It has becom...
Background: Obesity is defined by WHO “as a condition of abnormal or excessive fat accumulation in a...
Childhood obesity has become a major public health challenge in developing countries including India...
Background: Earlier obesity was a disease of the affluent but with changing trend, modernization, se...
Introduction: Overweight and obesity among children and adolescents has increased significantly in t...
Background: Childhood obesity is a state of over nutrition with long term complications such as hype...
Lifestyle is considered to be an important determinant of health and sickness. It has also a great r...
Background: With a rising trend of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in the present world, overw...
Background: The problem of obesity is confined not only in adults but also among the children and ad...
Background: Obesity is associated with an increased risk of morbidity and mortality as well as reduc...
Background: Nutritional and epidemiological evolution over the past 3 decades has resulted in weight...