Prevalence of Childhood Obesity in Dhaka City: Identifying Risk Factors

Abstract

The human race is facing a novel and enormous health challenge due to the rapidly unfolding global epidemic of obesity. Childhood obesity 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.

J Shaheed Suhrawardy Med Coll 2024; 16(1): 22-27