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Correlation between obesity & ABO Blood Group in School going Children in India

Correlation between obesity & ABO Blood Group in School going Children in India

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  • Indian Journal of Basic & Applied Medical Research

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  • 2012

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Background: We conducted present study to find out prevalence of malnutrition in school going children and to see if there is any correlation between overweight and obesity with ABO blood group. Methods and Materials: Total 143 school children (91 boys and 52 girls) in age group of 11-14 years from two school of Andhra Pradesh were enrolled in study. Height and weight were recorded using standard guidelines, BMI for Age in Percentile was calculated using software, BMI percentile <5 was taken as underweight, between 5 -85 percentile was taken as normal weight, between 85-95 percentile was taken as overweight and >95 percentile was taken as Obese. Blood group was estimated by slide agglutination method. Results : overweight and obesity was found to be more prevalent in girls than boys, in total 16% school children were overweight and obese ( 19 % girls and 14 % boys) the same trend was found in obesity 5% of total children were obese (BMI percentile>95 ) girls were having a prevalence of 6% while boys had 4%. Underweight/undernourishment was more prevalent (41%) than obesity and overweight. 48% boys and 27% girls were undernourished. In overweight and obese children 13 were having O blood group, 7 were with B blood group and 3 were having A blood group. Conclusion: prevalence of overweight and obesity is high in school children with more prevalence in girls than in boys. Obesity and overweight was found more prevalent in O blood group children
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