Frequency of Overweight and Obesity in Women

Objectives: To find out the frequency of overweight and obesity in women. Study design: Cross sectional study. Setting: Department of Medicine, Nawaz Sharif Social Security Hospital Lahore. Subjects and methods: 200 women were included in this study. Information of patients like height and weight were measured to calculate body mass index under standard condition of every subject's. Results: The mean weight of patients was 63.38 +/- 14.86. Most of the patients had 1.50- 1.60 meter of height. The body mass index of 88 ( 44%) patients was normal. Most of the patients were 16- 25 body mass indexes with their mean +/- SD 25.94 +/- 5.74. Only 63 ( 31.50%) patients were overweight (p< 0.001) while 49 (24.50%) patients were obese with (p < 0.001). Conclusion: Overweight and obesity are central to the metabolic syndrome and obese women are particularly susceptible to diabetes and hypertension. As development increases, the burden of overweight shifts to include poor as well as wealthy women.