Prevalence of Childhood Obesity in Dhaka City : Identifying Risk Factors
Keywords:
childhood obesity, risk factors - dietary habits, physical activities, life style risk factorsAbstract
The human race is facing a novel and enormous health challenge due to the
rapidly unfolding global epidemic of obesity. Childhood obesily continues to increase
significantly throughout the world with possible future consequences of developing
insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, hypertension, metabolic syndrome, impaired glucose
tolerance or Type 2 diabetes etc. To fight obesity, it is most important to identify the risk
factors of childhood obesity. Therefore, it was planned to conduct this study, to explore
the prevalence of childhood obesity in the studied population and to identify the risk
factors contributing to the problem among these obese children that may help to design
effective local prevention efforts and to develop recommendations. for the prevention and
management of obesity for a developing country like Bangladesh for a healthy tomorrow.
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