Maham Javed, Razia Chaudhry, Mushal Noor, Khalid Javed Abid.
Prevalence of Obesity among senior teaching faculty of an undergraduate medical college of Lahore, Pakistan.
Pak J Med Health Sci Jan ;7(4):917-20.

Aim: To determine the prevalence of obesity among senior teaching faculty of basic and clinical sciences and to identify the risk factors associated with obesity focusing mainly on effect of life style. Study design: Cross-sectional analytical Study settings & duration: Study was conducted among senior teaching faculty of Basic and clinical sciences for MBBS and Dentistry from May 2013 to August 2013. Methods: After obtaining the list of professors, Associates and Assistant professors, stratified random sampling technique was used and proportionately 24(32%) professors, 16(25.3%) associates and 32(42.7%) assist. Professors were selected by simple random technique from each strata. Results: Out of total 75 subjects 24 (32%) were professors, 19(25.3%) associate and 32(42.7%) were assistant professors. Male were 41 and females 34. Mean age of subjects was 43.5 yrs. Thirty two teachers belonged to basic and 43 were from clinical sciences. Twelve female and 14 male teachers had BMI <25 while 22 females and 27 males (49) had BMI > than 25. Only 27(36%) were used to have 1-2meals/day while others >2. Regarding fast food consumption only 1 subject out of 75 was used to have daily, 34(45.3%) admitted to have once/week and rest 40(53.4%) were used to take twice or > per week. Thirty one subjects (54.7%) had sedentary life style and out of 44 who had no sedentary life style 25(36.5%) were used to do 30 min. exercise daily or 4-5 times /week at least. Conclusion: Prevalence of-obesity was quiet high (36.6%) among senior teachers of this College of Medicine and Dentistry Lahore. Correlating factors as sedentary life style, excessive fast food intake and age are definite risk factors for obesity, diabetes, hypertension and heart disease.

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