Beta
166710

Dietary Patterns, Prevalence and Predictors of Obesity among Medical Students in Cairo University

Article

Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

Subjects

-

Tags

-

Abstract

Background: Non Communicable Diseases is intensely linked with overweight and obesity. The shifting disease pattern has been attributed to nutrition transition and poor exercise. This study was conducted to identify the dietary consumption patterns, assessing obesity among medical students and its predictors. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with 350 fourth year medical students in a university setting. Dietary patterns were assessed using self administered questionnaire based on United States Department of Health and Human Services and United States Department of Agriculture dietary guidelines for Americans 2015-2020.  Body mass index (BMI) was calculated by the researchers. Results: The prevalence of overweight and obesity was 32% and 9% respectively, among the participants. Unfortunately, 29.1% of the studied group were found to have low level of exercise. Intakes of fruits, and vegetables were low, while intakes of sweets and carbonated drinks were high. There was a significant higher percent of obesity among students who practice low level of physical activity (P < 0.05). Also the study revealed by logistic regression analysis that male students were more than 2 times more likely to be obese than female students (Odd's Ratio = 2.16). ConclusionThe prevalence of obesity was 9% among the studied group. Students were found to practice unhealthy dietary and lifestyle habits which had significant effects on their Body Mass Index levels.

DOI

10.21608/ejnh.2020.166710

Keywords

Dietary Patterns, Medical students, Body mass index (BMI), Obesity, Physical activity, food frequency

Authors

First Name

Eman

Last Name

ElHabashi

MiddleName

H.

Affiliation

Public Health and community Medicine faculty of medicine, Cairo University, Egypt.

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Shereen

Last Name

Esmat

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Public Health and community Medicine faculty of medicine, Cairo University, Egypt.

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Fayrouz

Last Name

El-Aguizy

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Public Health and community Medicine faculty of medicine, Cairo University, Egypt.

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Eman

Last Name

Ataya

MiddleName

Fouad

Affiliation

Public Health and community Medicine faculty of medicine, Cairo University, Egypt.

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

15

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

24365

Issue Date

2020-07-01

Receive Date

2021-04-26

Publish Date

2020-07-01

Page Start

91

Page End

111

Print ISSN

1687-7950

Online ISSN

2535-1559

Link

https://ejnh.journals.ekb.eg/article_166710.html

Detail API

https://ejnh.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=166710

Order

6

Type

Original Article

Type Code

443

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Nutrition and Health

Publication Link

https://ejnh.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

-

Details

Type

Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023