Obesity, high blood pressure, and anaemia are important factors that affect our health. Now-a-days, the prevalence of these factors among population particularly in young generation of Bangladesh is common. This cross sectional study is an attempt to assess the prevalence of obesity, high blood pressure, and anaemia among the students and staffs of Khwaja Yunus Ali University. The study includes 60 participants on random basis with in the age group 17 to 78 years all of which 51 were males and 9 were females. BMI, Blood pressure, and Hemoglobin were measured for each participant following standard guidelines. Our study reported that 11 males and 2 females were overweight and 5 males suffered from obesity. It is also observed that 9 participants (15%) had high systolic blood pressure among which 5 were from either overweight or obese while 4 participants (6.7%) had high diastolic blood pressure of which 3 participants were from those having high BMI. Our study revealed high prevalence of anaemia, 51 (85%) participants in our study population had some sort of iron deficiency. All female participants (100%) were observed to have moderate to severe anaemia. The study also showed that 11 participants who had overweight also possessed severe or mild anaemia. From our study, we observed that there is a strong correlation in age, sex, BMI, and blood pressure. Various socio-demographic features like age, sex, economic status, food habits and infections are the etiological factors for nutritional iron deficiency. Further research with comparatively a large sample volume is required to draw out the exact proportion for prevalence of anaemia so that appropriate remedial initiatives can be taken.
Key Words: Anaemia, Body Mass Index (BMI), Blood pressure (BP).
28-Feb-2025
