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Volume 8
Oct 25-26, 2018 Budapest, Hungary
21 st World Obesity Conference
World Obesity-2018 Journal of Obesity & Weight Loss Therapy | ISSN : 2165-7904
Association between birth weight and some metabolic syndrome arameters
among medical students in Al-Neelain University Faculty of Medicine
Introduction: Epidemiological evidences suggest a strong relation between birth weight and some
diseases in adult life (hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases (CVD)). It is thought that
an adverse intrauterine environment provokes adaptive response to ensure fetal survival which if
persist into adulthood may cause metabolic and CVD disease.
Aim: The aim of the work was to study association between birth weight and metabolic syndrome
parameters among medical students, aiming to avail information to build the natural history of
weight gain during early adulthood.
Methodology: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted at Al-Neelain Public
University; which was done as part of a larger study that examined the prevalence of obesity among
medical students (50) whose birth weight data were also involved in this study. Ethical approval was
obtained and data (collected by questionnaire, blood pressure, anthropometric measurements and
blood sample) were analyzed using SPSS (version 23).
Results: In this study metabolic syndrome (MetS) prevalence was 2% and 4.1% using IDF and
ATPIII definitions respectively. MetS risk factors were highly prevalent; 32.6% for obesity and
overweight, 48.1% for hypertension and pre hypertension. The relationship between birth weight
and adulthood obesity show inverted J shape relation with a tendency for higher BMI among
lower birth weight. LBW show statistical significance in relation to uncontrolled eating habit P
value=0.004 when compared to appropriate birth weight. Mean value for BP was higher among
large for gestational age LGA and low birth weight LBW compared to appropriate birth weight
individuals.
Conclusion: High prevalence of overweight/obesity as well as pre-hypertension/HTN and an
inverted J shape relationship between birth weight and adulthood obesity was found.
Biography
Tasabeeh Alnoor is a Teaching Assistant and Associate Professor of Physiology in Al-Neelain University, Associate
Professor in International University of Africa and also a Medical Student in Al-Neelain University, Sudan
Tasabeeh Alnoor
Al-Neelain University
Sudan
Tasabeeh Alnoor et al., J Obes Weight Loss Ther 2018, Volume:8
DOI: 10.4172/2165-7904-C10-084
Co- Authors
Lamis Kaddam, Faris Altkena and
Humeda Suekit
Al-Neelain University, Sudan