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Volume 8
Journal of Obesity & Weight Loss Therapy
ISSN: 2165-7904
Childhood Obesity 2018
March 15-16, 2018
March 15-16, 2018 | Barcelona, Spain
11
th
International Conference on
Childhood Obesity and Nutrition
Trends of underweight and obesity defined by anthropometric measurements among male students
at University of Thamar and Al saeeda-Yemen
Abdelmalek M Amran
and
Abdulaziz A. Abbas
Thamar University, Yemen
T
he general characteristics of the study sample, the total number of study participants amounted to 300 males; with
mean age of M=21.3, SD=3.01 years. The majority of students were unmarried (86.3%), while the married students were
13.7%. Around 15.7% of students reported eating less than three meals per day. However, 12.7% of participants skipped their
breakfast. Those, whose appetite was poor, felt sad most of the time and Qat chewing percentage was around 78% respectively.
A larger proportion of the parents (fathers) education of participants (33%) was more than high school education, while larger
proportion of the parents (mothers) education of participants (61.5%) was no education. Anthropometric measurements
were done for the participants, together with questionnaire administration. Results indicated that the median BMI was 20.2.
Overall, 17%, 70.7%, 9.7% and 2.7% were underweight, normal, overweight and obese respectively. 96% were normal and 4%
at risk related to waist circumference while abnormally, extremely, healthy, overweight and obese were 4%, 45.7%, 44.7%, 4%
and 1.7% related to WHtR. Poor diet and high prevalence of unhealthy eating habits was recorded among the participants; and
unhealthy lifestyle as Qat chewing had been identified as risk factors of underweight disease.
alrgma@yahoo.comJ Obes Weight Loss Ther 2018, Volume 8
DOI: 10.4172/2165-7904-C1-058