Affiliation:
1. Professor, Department of physiology, HIMS Jolly Grant Dehradun
2. Lecture, Department of biostatistics, HIMS Jolly Grant Dehradun
3. Associate Professor, Department of Physiology,HIMS Jolly Grant Dehradun
Abstract
Background — Over the past years, there seems to have been good attention paid to the connection between some
diseases and the ABO blood group type.To our knowledge,nostudy has been done todetermine the association between
obesity and ABO blood group. Aims — To find the prevalence of obesity in medical students and to determine the
association between obesity and ABO blood group. Materials and methods — A cross sectional study was carried out
among 745 medical students. Height, weight, waist circumference, hip circumference was measured. BMI and waist
—hip ratio was determined.Blood group was determined by slide agglutination method Results — The findings of the
present study reported that the most prevalent blood group was B+ whereas the blood group AB was least prevalent.
25.5% of the total study subjects were overweight and 7.2%were obese. Overweight and obesity were more common
among students with blood group B.It was also observed that WHR statistically associated with ABO Blood group system.
Conclusion — Participants with blood group B+ had higher prevalence of overweight and obesity. ABO Blood group
system showed statistically significant association with WHR.
Subject
Catalysis,General Chemistry,Catalysis,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,Catalysis,General Chemistry,Catalysis,Mechanics of Materials,Materials Science (miscellaneous),Analytical Chemistry,Catalysis,Earth-Surface Processes,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine,General Arts and Humanities,Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous),Public Administration,Geography, Planning and Development,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
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