Abstract: The present study has been done to find out impact of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis on the BMI of women patients from urban and rural areas of Punjab by emphasizing on age group 45-65 years. The prime objective of the present study was to estimate body mass index among female subjects. By using standard anthropometric techniques height and weight of female subjects is measured. BMI is calculated for each individual. The mean values of BMI for the OA group were computed to be 29.16±5.02, where as that of RA group was computed to be 26.13±4.61. Test values of t was computed to be 3.146 at 98 degrees of freedom, which happened to be statistically highly significant (p=0.0022). We could thus conclude that on an average, BMI of RA group patients was highly significantly lower than that of OA group patients. Subjects were further categorized under normal, underweight, overweight and obese category according to International Classification of adult underweight, overweight and obesity according to BMI stated by WHO.
Keywords: Rheumatoid arthritis, Osteoarthritis, BMI, obesity.
Title: IMPACT OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AND OSTEOARTHRITIS ON THE BMI OF WOMEN PATIENTS RANGING IN AGE FROM 45-65 YEARS
Author: Charanjeet kaur, Ajitpal Singh
International Journal of Life Sciences Research
ISSN 2348-313X (Print), ISSN 2348-3148 (online)
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