Abstract: There has been documented increase in type 2 diabetes mellitus and obesity in children over the past two decades globally. In Nigeria, there is paucity of data on the measure of obesity and fasting blood glucose profile of adolescents, although there are impression of increasing adiposity compared to years past. This was a cross sectional study involving 628 adolescents from three different secondary schools in Ado Ekiti over four month duration. With parental consent, volunteers completed a questionnaire, had their weight, height, waist and hip circumferences and fasting blood glucose measured and documented.346 male and 282 female adolescents whose ages ranged from 10 to 19 years were studied. 180 (28.7%) and 4 (0.6%) had FBG in pre-diabetic and diabetic range respectively while the rest had normal FBG. 552 (87.9%) had normal BMI percentile, 42 (6.7%) were overweight, 5 (0.8%) were obese and 29 (4.6%) were underweight. Only female gender, early adolescence (age group 10-14 years), and family history of obesity have statistically significant influence on FBG levels (p value = <0.001, <0.001 and 0.045 respectively). There was linear relationship between FBG and BMI percentile and also between FBG and WHR though not predictive (r2 =0.005 and 0.018 respectively). This study showed that there was linear correlation between the BMI, WHR and FBG among secondary school adolescents in Ado-Ekiti.
Keywords: Body mass index, fasting blood glucose, adolescents, Nigeria.
Title: Relationship between Obesity and Fasting Blood Glucose among Secondary School Adolescents in Ado-EKITI, South West Nigeria
Author: Oluwayemi I.O, Oluwayemi M.A
International Journal of Healthcare Sciences
ISSN 2348-5728 (Online)
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