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Background: Overweight and obesity is the underlying cause of death for about 3 million people each year. More than 100 million individuals are obese in India. Few studies have been carried out among Indian undergraduate students where irregular dietary pattern, stress and anxiety are more prevalent due to academic pressure. The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence of over-weight and obesity in Medical and Allied Science students.Methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted in 2017 among 922 medical and allied science undergraduate students of Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Karnataka, after obtaining the institutional ethical approval and written informed consent. Information was obtained with the help of pre-designed, pretested semi-structured questionnaire by self-administered method and anthropometric measurement.Results: Overall prevalence of overweight and obesity among students was 23.6% and 5.2% respectively. Prevalence of overweight among male students was 28.7% and 18.6 % in female. Obese male students were 5.5% and 5 % were obese in female.Conclusions: About one fourth of the students were overweight and more than one in twenty students were obese. Overweight and obesity was more in male than female. Background: Overweight and obesity is the underlying cause of death for about 3 million people each year. More than 100 million individuals are obese in India. Few studies have been carried out among Indian undergraduate students where irregular dietary pattern, stress and anxiety are more prevalent due to academic pressure. The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence of over-weight and obesity in Medical and Allied Science students.Methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted in 2017 among 922 medical and allied science undergraduate students of Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Karnataka, after obtaining the institutional ethical approval and written informed consent. Information was obtained with the help of pre-designed, pretested semi-structured questionnaire by self-administered method and anthropometric measurement.Results: Overall prevalence of overweight and obesity among students was 23.6% and 5.2% respectively. Prevalence of overweight among male students was 28.7% and 18.6 % in female. Obese male students were 5.5% and 5 % were obese in female.Conclusions: About one fourth of the students were overweight and more than one in twenty students were obese. Overweight and obesity was more in male than female.
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Background: Tuberculosis still remains public health problems in Nepal. Previous studies among marginalized ethnic groups suggest that being poor increases the risk of tuberculosis. Dalit communities are those communities in Nepal, backward in social, economic and educational fields and are not excluded from the risk of tuberculosis. The objective of the study was to determine the level of knowledge on pulmonary tuberculosis among Dalit community of Bharatpokhari VDC of Kaski.Methods: Community based cross-sectional study was conducted to determine the level of knowledge on pulmonary tuberculosis among Dalit community of Bharatpokhari VDC, Kaski from January 2010 to July 2010. Samples were taken randomly from different wards of the VDC. Data was collected by using pretested structured questionnaire by home to home visit of age 15-49 years. Data was collected from 15th January 2010 to 15th May 2010.Results: Study revealed that 29% respondents had adequate level of knowledge on pulmonary tuberculosis. The factor, education status was associated with level of knowledge on pulmonary tuberculosis on bivariate analysis (p=0.005).Conclusions: More than two third of the respondents had inadequate level of knowledge on pulmonary tuberculosis. Thus, recommends for the awareness programme on pulmonary tuberculosis. The education status and level of knowledge on pulmonary tuberculosis was significantly associated on bivariate analysis, and recommends for improvement in the education status of dalit community would be beneficial.