Volume 20 No 9 (2022)
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Review on obesity in school children
Gurpinder Kaur and Vikas Garg
Abstract
Obesity is an increasingly frequent condition that the WHO has classified as a disease. Obesity and its negative repercussions are a significant concern in developing economies due to the consumption of energy rich meals (i.e., poor eating practices), sluggish lifestyles, a provision of primary care, and monetary incentives. Obesity is one of the government's biggest medical and budgetary headaches. This review paper has been designed with an aim to assess prevalence trends in measured overweight and obesity with blood pressure school among children across Ernakulam District, Kerala. To choose the kids, a stratified random cluster sampling technique was employed. The Students 't' test was used to determine the statistical significance of the difference in the mean impact of multiple parameters between the 2 categories. Using accepted techniques, the odds ratio and the related confidence intervals were calculated. This was accomplished using the SPSS software. According to the body mass index for gender and age, being overweight or obese was defined. Age, size, and sexual preference were taken into account while assessing hypertension. Urban areas and private institutions had much high levels of overweight students, and only private institutions were seeing the strong growth. The findings point to the need for more public education and initiatives to avoid blubber crisis and hypertension.
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