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| Article Name : | | | OBESITY AND BODY COMPOSITION IN URBAN AND RURAL REDDY POPULATION OF ANDHRA PRADESH | | Author Name : | | | P. Annaiah, P. Venkatramana , P. Chandrasekhar Rao and P. Chengal Reddy | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | ROR-692 | | Article : | |  | Author Profile | | Abstract : | | | Obesity is one of the attention topics worldwide and creating major health problems. A number of factors have been associated to obesity, including age, gender and socio-economic status with the advancement of science and technology. The assessment of body composition in populations, as well as in individuals, is important as it provides information about nutritional status and health risks. Present study is conducted on Reddy population from Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh to assess body composition and obesity covering both urban and rural population among both the sexes.The data on various anthropometric measurements includes, surface measurements, circumference measurements and skinfold thickness was collected from 300 subjects of both sexes with an age range of 20-60 years. The prevalence of obesity is more in the age group of 30-40 and above 50 years than the other age groups of urban population than in rural population and more obesity were observed in females than males. High caloric diet, low physical activity and high economic status are main reasons for overweight/obesity in the urban Reddy population. But rural populations have high levels of physical activity and consume low caloric diet. Developing physical activity programs and low caloric diet designed to prevent obesity. | | Keywords : | | - Andhra Pradesh,Andhra Pradesh
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