Assessment of Overweight and Obesity with Life Style among Secondary School Students in Al-Ramadi City AL-Any Ban Nadhum* Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Anbar, Iraq *Corresponding author: Ban Nadhum AL-Any, E-mail: dr.ban.alani64@gmail.com
Online published on 30 April, 2019. Abstract Overweight and obesity is a major health problem during adolescence which is related to lifestyle and behavioural factors. Assessment of overweight and obesity with life style among secondary school students in Al-Ramadi city. A cross sectional study was conducted among 200 secondary school students in AL-Ramadi City during the period from March to April 2018. For body Mass Index (BMI) > 25, the percentage was 40% for male and 20% for female students that mostly between age 17–18 years. More than half of male students had fatty, starchy food while 30% of female students had this type of food (with statically significance). According to habits 50%, 30% of male and female students had soft drinking/day respectively while for power drinking, 33% of male students and only 5% of females students had it daily (with statically significance). 70% of both sexes had tea with sugar for more than 3 times/day. For smoking 42% of male students were smokers while 3% of female students were smokers for less than 10 cigarette/day. 5% of males had euphoria drugs and 2% had alcohol for different times/week. 70% of students had family history of obesity (with statically significance). There was an association between overweight, obesity and diet according to sex (statically significance). -Total 50% of obese student had normal hormonal assay, others didn't do it. -There was no history of medications, and all of them didn't do any exercise. There was high percentage of obesity and overweight mostly among male students who had unhealthy food pattern and habits, with lack of any exercise. Top Keywords Body mass index, Sex, Dietary pattern, habits. Top |