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Assessment of Child Anthropometry in a Large Epidemiologic Study
Published on: February 2, 2017
Overweight and obesity in affluent school children of Punjab
Sharda Sidhu1, Navdeep Kaur, Ramanjeet Kaur
1Department of Human Genetics, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, 143 005, India. shardasidhu@hotmail.com
Abstract:
In the present cross-sectional study, an attempt has been made to report the prevalence of overweight and obesity in school-going children of the affluent families of Punjab. A total of 1000 children (490 boys and 510 girls) were measured for height and weight. Overweight and obesity were assessed using age and sex-specific body mass index (BMI) cut-off points. In the present study, 12.24% boys and 14.31% girls were overweight, and 5.92% boys and 6.27% girls were obese. The prevalence of overweight and obesity among the affluent school children of Punjab was as high or higher as in some developed countries.
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