Distribution of students according to their BMI.

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... Journal of Advances in Medicine | September-October 2018 | Vol 5 | Issue 5 Page 3 Figure 1 shows the distribution of students according to their BMI. It shows that majority of about 56.4% (53) students were normal weight and nearly 26.6% of students were overweight. Only 6.4% of student were obese, it was noted that 10.6% of students were underweight. Figure 2 shows the distribution of students according to their obesity level. It shows that 56.4% of students were normal, 26.6% of students were pre-obese. Of the 6.4% obese majority of 4.3% of students were of class I obese. Also 1.1% of students were class II and class III obese respectively. Regarding 10.6% underweight most of them (9.6%) were in mild thinness category. The Table 1 shows the mean and SD of parameters. The mean weight of students was 63.83?13.013 and mean height of students was 163.106?9.812. Similarly, the mean waist circumference of students was 86.266?12.878 and mean hip circumference of students was 91.83?14.476. The mean BMI was 23.953?4.331 and mean waist to hip ratio was 0.957?14.476. Chi-Square = 8.951; P Value = 0.03 Significant Table 2 shows that obesity level was greater in females of about 9.1% (6) than males of only 2.6%. This remains the same in case of underweight also where females were 14.5% and males were 5.1%. On the contrary majority of 41% of males were overweight than the females who were 16.4% which shows that males are at greater risk. Table 3 shows the risk of metabolic complications analyzed using waist to hip ratio with respect to gender where 81.8% of females and 79.5% of males are in the substantially increased risk category. This shows that there is no significant difference in risk factors in regard to gender ...