Discriminating Bangladeshi Adults by Level of Obesity

Volume 3 - Issue 1

Bhuyan KC¹* and Jannatul Fardus²

Received: January 29, 2019;   Published: February 05, 2019

DOI: 10.32474/LOJMS.2019.02.000152

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Abstract

The present study was based on data collected from 900 respondents of both urban and rural areas of Bangladesh. Among them 44.3 percent were obese and severe obese. Majority (70.6 %) were diabetic patients With the increase in age significant increase in prevalence rate of obesity and severe obesity was observed. Higher prevalence rate was also observed among retired respondents. An upward shift of prevalence rate was observed among the higher educated respondents. Urban people were more obese and severe obese. Higher proportion of females was obese. This was true for housewives also. Obesity and severe obesity were prevalent among respondents who were not involved in any physical activity. The respondents of different levels of obesity were discriminated due to the variables residence, age, gender, and marital status. This was decided by the measurement of larger correlation coefficients of variables and discriminant scores.

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