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Abstract
Obesity is a significant public health challenge as well as an
economic burden because obese patients are at increased risk of illness
from coronary heart disease, hypertension, type U diabetes respiratory
insufficiency, vcnOL1S stasis or throbmoembolic disease, debilitating
arthritis of weight beating joints, depression as well as from uterine,
ovarian, colonic, prostatic cancers (Clltil’les, 2001).
The prevelanee of obesity is increasing at an alarming rate In many
parts of the world. III west and north of Europe, Australia, and the United
States the prevelance of obesity is similarly nigh in men and women. In
cou tries with relatively low grows national product, such as those ill
central and Estern Europe, Asia, Lati 1- America and Africa the prevalence
is 1.5 to 2 times higher among women than among men. In conclusion
obesity is particularly common in women Jiving in relatively poor
condition (Seidell, 2005).
There are many methods for assessment of obesity but the most
accurate is the body mass index (BMI) which cone ate. body weight to
frame size of body and equal patient weight in kilogram divided by patient
height in meter squared.
BMI = Wt in. kg (Harvey & Ric, 1997).