Sunday, November 7, 2021

To determine the prevalence of Obesity and overweight among Saudis females, during reproductive age, to determine its risk factors & lifestyle behavior of Obesity in Al Dawadmi city Saudi population. Finally make health educational intervention about Obesity for women. This study is descriptive cross sectional study was conducted in Aldawadmi governorate, by examining women in the age group of 18- 55 years included 500 women from the general public were given questionnaires regarding the details of their lifestyle patterns, Stepwise approach to non-communicable diseases' 304 (60.8%) study subjects fell within the 20–40-year age range. Also, most of women length between 150 cm to 160 cm comprised (13.8%) and employees comprised 64.6% of the total population. According to the statistics, rate of obesity is 38%, first class estimated 53% of obesity while class 3 estimated 4%. the relations between the BMI with the different categories of study subjects and the presence of obesity and overweight were found to be highly statistically significant. Obesity is regarded as one of the most common health issues in different parts of the world. The obesity prevalence in Aldawadmi city, KSA were 38% and overweight representing 17%.