Prevalence of Overweight Among Adult Women of A Metropolitan
Introduction: Globally, Overweight has reached epidemic proportions. It is an excessiveaccumulation of fat that may impair health. Overweight and obesity area major contributor tothe global burden of non-communicable disease. The prevalence of overweight is commonlyassessed by using Body Mass Index (BMI), where overweight is indicated by BMI greater orequal to 25. Overall, about 13% of the world’s adult population was obese in 2016, among themwomen were more affected than men. Overall,female population is higher than male in Nepaland concentrating on Kaski district female population are significantly more than that of maleas per population census of 2011. The objective of this study was to find out the prevalence ofoverweight among adult women. Methods: This was a cross-sectional descriptive study, conducted among calculated samplesize of 185 adult women of Lekhnath Metropolitian of Kaski district, over six months’ period.Sampling technique was proportionate random sampling. Ethical approval was taken fromInstitutional Review Board (Ref no. 40/74/75). Anthropometric measurement was taken tocalculate BMI. Collected data was entered in Epi data, which was then exported to SPSS version20 for further analysis. Descriptive statistics was reported for demographic, socio-economic andvarious overweight related factors of the respondents as frequencies and percentage. Results: Out of 185 adult women, 69 (37.3%) of them were overweight, 30 (16.2%) of them wereobese, and central obesity was seen among 97 (52.4%) women at 95% C.I. Conclusions: The finding of this study shows prevalence of overweight and obesity was high.Regular Physical exercise and balanced diet should be followed to prevent overweight and noncommunicable diseases.