PMID- 17699967
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20070918
LR  - 20220331
IS  - 0973-7693 (Electronic)
IS  - 0019-5456 (Linking)
VI  - 74
IP  - 7
DP  - 2007 Jul
TI  - Obesity amongst affluent adolescent girls.
PG  - 619-22
AB  - OBJECTIVE: To assess the prevalence and type of obesity in affluent schoolgirls 
      aged 16 and 17 yr. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted in 2002, in 4 
      randomly selected public schools of Delhi. All girls from randomly chosen classes 
      were included. Weight, height and waist and hip circumferences were measured for 
      all 414 schoolgirls and their socio-demographic profile was recorded. Body mass 
      index [BMI] and waist hip ratio [WHR] were calculated for all the girls. BMI > 30 
      (i.e.--95th percentile) denotes obesity and BMI > 25 (i.e.--85th percentile) 
      denotes overweight as according to International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) 
      criteria. WC > 80 cm or WHR > 0.85 denote central obesity. RESULTS: Prevalence of 
      obesity and overweight amongst the study subjects was 5.3% and 15.2% respectively 
      (IOTF). Out of the 22 obese girls central obesity was present in 21 girls (95.4%) 
      [WC > 80 cm] and 12 girls (54.5%) [WHR > 0.85]. CONCLUSION: There is significant 
      prevalence of obesity in affluent schoolgirls in Delhi and more than half of them 
      have central obesity.
FAU - Mehta, M
AU  - Mehta M
AD  - Department of Community Medicine, University College of Medical Sciences & Guru 
      Teg Bahadur Hospital, New Delhi, India. dr_mukta_mehta@yahoo.co.in
FAU - Bhasin, S K
AU  - Bhasin SK
FAU - Agrawal, K
AU  - Agrawal K
FAU - Dwivedi, S
AU  - Dwivedi S
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - India
TA  - Indian J Pediatr
JT  - Indian journal of pediatrics
JID - 0417442
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Body Height
MH  - Body Weight
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - India/epidemiology
MH  - Obesity/*epidemiology
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Social Class
MH  - Socioeconomic Factors
MH  - Waist-Hip Ratio
EDAT- 2007/08/19 09:00
MHDA- 2007/09/19 09:00
CRDT- 2007/08/19 09:00
PHST- 2007/08/19 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2007/09/19 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2007/08/19 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1007/s12098-007-0109-8 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Indian J Pediatr. 2007 Jul;74(7):619-22. doi: 10.1007/s12098-007-0109-8.