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Acta Biomedica Scientia

Volume 6, Issue 3, 2019
Mcmed International
Acta Biomedica Scientia
Issn
2348 - 215X (Print), 2348 - 2168 (Online)
Frequency
bi-annual
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Abstract
Title
TO STUDY NECK CIRCUMFERENCE, A SCREENING TOOL FOR OBESITY IN SCHOOL GOING CHILDRENS IN SOUTHINDIA
Author
Carel Joseph Peravali1, Sreekanth Reddy
Email
drvrvkk@gmail.com
keyword
BMI, NC, Over Weight, Obesity, WC, HC, Children
Abstract
“CHILDHOOD OBESITY and its co-morbidities is considered as a prime health hitch that lay up consideration among the public health society. Obesity and overweight has bagged the fifth position in the global risk for mortality. The main objective is to evaluate the association between neck circumference and obesity among the children. This is a cross sectional study conducted between the period of February 2018- March 2018, among 150 male + 129 female students, aged 11 to 18 years. Anthropometric markers of obesity- body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), Hip circumference (HC), waist hip ratio (WHR),neck circumference (NC) were collected. Pearson’s correlation coefficient was used to compute the neck circumference with other obesity indices. The mean BMI was 27.70±1.27 kg/m² and 27.72±2.12kg/m²,mean neck circumference was 35.42±2.26cm and 32.85±1.92 in overweight /obese boys + girls respectively.The hip circumference in boys was found to be greater than girls, which is higher in overweight /obese students with P<0.001.Neck circumference shows a strong positive correlation with other anthropometric measures BMI,WC, HC in boys and girls (P<0.001). Neck circumference has shown significance correlation with other indices of obesity in children with greater reliability
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