Socioeconomic Variables Associated with Level of Obesity and Prevalence of Other Diseases Among Children and Adolescents of Some Affluent Families of Bangladesh

Volume 2 - Issue 2

Bhuyan KC*

Received:June 28, 2019;   Published:July 08, 2019

DOI: 10.32474/ADO.2019.02.000133

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Abstract

The present study utilized the data collected from 662 children observed from 560 randomly selected families of students of American International University-Bangladesh. Among the investigated children and adolescents 465 were in underweight group. Obesity and severe obesity were observed among 9.1 percent children and adolescents and prevalence of diabetes was observed among 22.8 percent respondents. The percentage of respondents affected by different diseases except diabetes was 13.4. It was evident that level of obesity, prevalence of diabetes and prevalence of other diseases were significantly associated, and level of obesity was associated with different socioeconomic characters of the parents and of the respondents. Parents’ education, age of children, family income and food habit of the children were the most important variables for the change in level of obesity of children and adolescents. Fitting of logistic regression using level of other diseases as dependent variable showed that residence, parents’ education, family income, prevalence of diabetes, food habit of the children, blood sugar level of children, utilization of time by the children were some of the variables responsible for prevalence of other diseases among the children.

Keywords: Level of obesity; Socioeconomic variables; Significant association between diabetes and level of obesity; Logistic regression

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