Healthcare

Biography

Biography: Taha Hussein Musa

Abstract

Overweight and obesity are the leading health risk factors throughout the world. Recent studies showed that obesity among Chinese students are continuously increasing in children and adolescents. The aim of the study was to evaluate the prevalence of overweight and obesity among students in Jiangsu province, China, from 2010 to 2013. Data were obtained from Jiangsu provincial department of education in Nanjing city, using multistage stratified cluster sampling in 13 districts. Students were classified as normal weight, overweight and obese according to the body mass index (BMI). A total of 255,581 students from 82 school and 10 universities were involved in the study, 50.03% of them are males and 49.97% are females within the age 7–22 years. The anthropometric measures body height, weight, BMI and bust were 1.57(m), 49.89 (kg), 19.66(kg/m2) and 76.88(cm), respectively. Males significantly shows higher estimates than females (P<0.001). The prevalence of overweight and obesity for all students were 12.4% and 5.7%, respectively. The prevalence was significantly higher for males 16.0% and 7.9% compared with females 8.7% and 3.5%, respectively. The prevalence of overweight boys was 16.55% in city and 13.53% in county, while the prevalence of overweight girls was 10.40% in city and 9.30% in county. Obesity was positively decreases by increasing of age. Obese boys were 8.50% in city and 6.10% in county, while obese girls were 4.53% in city and 3.55% in county. The study revealed a high prevalence of overweight among aged groups and different district in Jiangsu province. It is highly recommended to reduce the prevalence of overweight and obesity among students’ by changing lifestyle, daily health activity related to fitness and increasing students’ awareness through effective health education program.