Factors related to overweight and obesity in the university population

Abstract

Chronic noncommunicable diseases (CND) and chronic degenerative diseases (CDD) are current events worldwide, affecting the health and quality of life of thousands of people throughout the world. We collected information from 1696 people, 716 men and 940 women in an age range of 17 to 32 years, and performed descriptive statistics to obtain the mean ± standard deviation of each of the determinations and measurements performed, grouped according to the year of study and by the percentage of alterations in each of the measurements. We found that, despite the national strategies created to combat overweight and obesity, and if a tendency to decrease in the percentage of alterations is found, the difference is not statistically significant, which indicates that reforms are required in the strategies for obtaining better results.