Background: Obesity is emerging as a serious problem throughout the world, not only among
adults but also
children ,
teenagers and
young adults .
Medical education is stressful throughout the whole
course of
training .
Overweight and
obesity is one of the preventable cause of
morbidity and
mortality . The social implications of
obesity are a major problem that is often neglected. Objectives of current study were to assess the
prevalence of
overweight and
obesity in
medical students and to assess the factors influencing the development of
overweight and
obesity .
Methods: The present study was a cross sectional study of IInd semester
medical students in which, a total of 131
students were included. The study involved
administration of a pretested
questionnaire to the
students and their anthropometric measurements.
Results: In a batch of 150
students 131 participated in the study in which 90 (68.70%) were
males and 41 (31.30%) were
females . The
prevalence of
overweight was 13 (9.93%) and the
prevalence of
obesity was 2 (1.53%).
Conclusion: The study showed a high
prevalence of
overweight and
obesity among the
medical students . At the
time of anthropometric measurements
awareness was created for their weight and for the promotion of
physical activity among
medical students .