?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Nutritional+Status+of+Households+of+Rural+Field+Practice+Area+of+a+Tertiary+Care+Hospital+in+India&rft.creator=Sharma%2C+MK&rft.creator=Gour%2C+N&rft.creator=Walia%2C+DK&rft.creator=Goel%2C+NK&rft.creator=Agarwal%2C+N&rft.subject=Online+Journal+of+Health+and+Allied+Sciences&rft.description=Introduction%3A+In+the+world+as+a+whole+there+appears+to+be+a+shift+from+under-nourishment+towards+over-nourishment+making+more+and+more+children%2C+adolescents%2C+adults+and+even+elderly+to+be+overweight+and+obese.+Objectives%3A+Study+aimed+to+find+out+the+age+and+sex+wise+commonness+of+over-weight+%26+obesity+amongst+the+families+of+an+overtly+different+socio-economic+environment+and+its+trend+in+the+members+of+one+type+of+families.+Materials+%26+Methods%3A+The+undergraduate+medical+students+are+supposed+to+maintain+record+of+individual+health+(including+height+%26+weight)+of+their+own+family+as+well+as+that+of+the+allotted+family.+The+data+collected+(record+maintained+)+by+students+was+utilized+to+calculate+Body+Mass+Index+(BMI).+Results%3A+Out+of+total+291+subjects+(males+168%3B+females+123)+in+students+own+family+28.9%25+(28.0%25%3B+30.1%25)+were+overweight+and+5.9%25+(6.0%25%3B+5.7%25)+were+obese.+The+similar+figures+for+262+subjects+(males+143+%26+females+119)+in+the+allotted+families+were+20.2%25+(18.5%25%3B+20.2%25)+and+6.5%25+(4.2%25%3B+8.4%25)+respectively.+The+respective+percentages+of+under+nourished+individuals+were+18.6+(17.9%3B+19.5)+and+35.5+(37.8%3B+32.8).+Thus+over-nutrition+was+more+common+amongst+the+members+of+students+own+families+(34.8%25+vs.+26.7%25)+and+under-nutrition+was+more+common+amongst+the+members+of+allotted+families+(35.5%25+vs.+18.6%25)+For+the+years+2000-2003%2C+BMI+amongst+individuals+of+students++own+families+the+under-nutrition+in+the+age+group+of+15-24+years+amongst+males+increased+from+15.9%25+to+32.9%25+and+over-nutrition+from+13.6%25+to+20.5%25.+There+was+no+case+of+overweight+and+obesity+up+to+the+age+of+34+years+in+the+previous+analysis+which+was+2.6%25+in+the+present+analysis++Previous+results+demonstrated+overweight+to+be+more+common+in+males+(32.4%25+Vs.+24.4%25+in+females)+and+obesity+being+more+common+females+(+6.3%25+Vs.+2.6%25+in+females).+Conclusion%3A+Males+are+increasingly+becoming+prey+of+malnutrition+(adolescents+for+under-nutrition+and+adults+%26+elderly+for+over-nutrition.+More+studies+covering+larger+samples+are+required+to+be+conducted+on+a+more+frequent+basis.&rft.publisher=BS+Kakkilaya&rft.contributor=Kakkilaya%2C+Dr+Srinivas&rft.date=2011-04-15&rft.type=Journal+(On-line%2FUnpaginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F7788%2F1%2F2011-1-3.pdf&rft.identifier=++Sharma%2C+MK+and+Gour%2C+N+and+Walia%2C+DK+and+Goel%2C+NK+and+Agarwal%2C+N++(2011)+Nutritional+Status+of+Households+of+Rural+Field+Practice+Area+of+a+Tertiary+Care+Hospital+in+India.++%5BJournal+(On-line%2FUnpaginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F7788%2F