Nutritional status of adult Bengalee slum dwellers of Midnapore town, Paschim Medinipore, West Bengal, India
Keywords:
Anthropometry, BMI, chronic energy deficiency, slum dwellers
Abstract
A cross sectional study of 1000 Bengalee adults slum dwellers (male = 494, female = 506) aged 18-81 years of Midnapore town, Paschim Medinipore, West Bengal, India was undertaken to study their age and sex differences in nutritional status. The age range of this study was 18 to 81 years. Subjects were classified into five age groups, each with a width of 10 years. The groups were 18-29.9 (males=238, females=186), 30-39.9 (males=105, females=119), 40-49.9 (males=61, females=98), 50-59.9(males=46, females=55), and >60 (males=44, females=48) years. Two basic variables (height and weight) and a single derived variable (BMI) have been used in the present report. Nutritional status was determined following World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines (WHO, 1995) to facilitate international comparison. The overall frequencies of CED among males and females were 20.85% and 24.31%, respectively. Based on WHO classification, the prevalence of CED among this population was high (20-39%) and thus, the situation is serious in both sexes. These rates were, in general, lower than the recently reported studies.
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Khatun, A., Bhadra, M., Mukhopadhyay, A. and Bose, K. (2016). Anthropometric assessment of nutritional status of Muslim adolescents of Deganga, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India. International Journal of Experimental Research and Review (IJERR). 4: 34-39.
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Khongdier, R. (2002). Body mass index and morbidity in adult males of the War Khasi in Northeast India. Eur. J. Clin. Nutr. 56: 484-489.
Khongdier, R., Varte, R. and Mukherjee, N. (2005). Body Excess male chronic energy deficiency among adolescents: a cross sectional study in the context of patrilineal and matrilineal societies in Northeast India. Eur. J. Clin. Nutr. 59: 1007-1014.
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Mittal, P.C. and Srivastava, S. (2006). Diet, nutritional status and food related traditions of oraon tribes of New Mal (West Bengal), India. Rural and Remote Health. 6: 385-395.
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Pryer, J.A. and Rogers, S. (2003). Factors affecting nutritional status in female adults in Dhaka slums, Bangladesh. Soc. Biol. 50: 259-269.
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World Health Organization (1995). Physical status: the use and interpretation of anthropometry. Technical Report series no. 854.World Health Organization, Geneva.
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2016-12-30
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Das, P., Khatun, A., Mukhopadhyay, A., Bhadra, M., & Bose, K. (2016). Nutritional status of adult Bengalee slum dwellers of Midnapore town, Paschim Medinipore, West Bengal, India. International Journal of Experimental Research and Review, 8, 23-28. Retrieved from https://qtanalytics.in/journals/index.php/IJERR/article/view/1308
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