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19623139

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-7-22
pubmed:abstractText
Bangladesh is one of the twenty countries in the world with the largest elderly populations, and by 2025, along with four other Asian countries, will account for 44% of world's total elderly population. This rapidly increasing population is a new and important group in terms of social and health policy in the country. As retired geriatric population is increasing day by day and there is a striking increase in their life expectancy and as malnutrition, overweight, obesity is commonly accompanying the elderly and all these leads to many functional impairment and diseases. So, evaluations of anthropometric measurements of retired Geriatric population are essential. This study was done for the evaluation the anthropometric measurement of retired geriatric people. This was a cross-sectional study. A total number of 70 retired subjects 57 years to 90 years were included in this study. All the subjects were evidently healthy both physically and mentally and without known hypertension, diabetes, renal diseases. Another 70 normal adult aged 18 to 55 years were taken as control group. All were obtained from different areas of greater Mymensingh districts of Bangladesh. Height, weight were measured and then Body mass index (BMI) was calculated. In the present study the result were interpreted as a mean of measured values with standard deviation (SD). The data were statistically analyzed by a computer with the statistical package for social science (SPSS) program (version 12.0). Both the descriptive and inferential statistics were calculated using the above programme. The mean+/-SD of BMI of study group was 24.49+/-1.11 and of control group was 23.43+/-1.46, which is a bit higher than the control group and is statistically highly significant. The mean BMI of study group was a bit higher than the control group, yet all the values were within physiological limits. So the retired geriatric population having normal anthropometric measurements in our setting.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
1022-4742
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
18
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
154-8
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Anthropometric assessment in retired geriatric population.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Physiology, Mymensingh Medical College, Mymensingh, Bangladesh. hafiz2008bd@yahoo.com
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article