Overweight and obesity in Portugal higher education students

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Autor(a) principal: Campos, Francisco
Data de Publicação: 2018
Outros Autores: Abrantes, Bruno, Ferreira, Rúben, Marques, Mariana, M. L. Martins, Fernando, Melo, Ricardo, Mendes, Rui
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/46729
Resumo: Purpose. Overweight and obesity arise, essentially, as a consequence of the adoption of poor eating habits and sedentary lifestyles. Being the teenager a “microworld” in transformation, is intend to characterize and compare (gender) body composition parameters in Higher Education students. Methods. The characterization was performed through univariate analysis and the comparison using Mann-Whitney test, for a statistical significance level of 5% (p<0.05). Results. Female students presented less satisfactory results in Waist Circumference (WC) and Waist-Hip Ratio (WHiR), male students in Body Mass Index (BMI) and Waist-Height Ratio (WHeR), and there are statistically significant differences in 3 of the 4 parameters (WC, WHiR and WHeR). Conclusions. These results may be useful to define strategies to combat overweight and obesity, considering the characteristics of this specific population.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Overweight and obesity in Portugal higher education students
title Overweight and obesity in Portugal higher education students
spellingShingle Overweight and obesity in Portugal higher education students
Campos, Francisco
obesity
students
sedentary lifestyle
title_short Overweight and obesity in Portugal higher education students
title_full Overweight and obesity in Portugal higher education students
title_fullStr Overweight and obesity in Portugal higher education students
title_full_unstemmed Overweight and obesity in Portugal higher education students
title_sort Overweight and obesity in Portugal higher education students
author Campos, Francisco
author_facet Campos, Francisco
Abrantes, Bruno
Ferreira, Rúben
Marques, Mariana
M. L. Martins, Fernando
Melo, Ricardo
Mendes, Rui
author_role author
author2 Abrantes, Bruno
Ferreira, Rúben
Marques, Mariana
M. L. Martins, Fernando
Melo, Ricardo
Mendes, Rui
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Repositório Comum
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Campos, Francisco
Abrantes, Bruno
Ferreira, Rúben
Marques, Mariana
M. L. Martins, Fernando
Melo, Ricardo
Mendes, Rui
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv obesity
students
sedentary lifestyle
topic obesity
students
sedentary lifestyle
description Purpose. Overweight and obesity arise, essentially, as a consequence of the adoption of poor eating habits and sedentary lifestyles. Being the teenager a “microworld” in transformation, is intend to characterize and compare (gender) body composition parameters in Higher Education students. Methods. The characterization was performed through univariate analysis and the comparison using Mann-Whitney test, for a statistical significance level of 5% (p<0.05). Results. Female students presented less satisfactory results in Waist Circumference (WC) and Waist-Hip Ratio (WHiR), male students in Body Mass Index (BMI) and Waist-Height Ratio (WHeR), and there are statistically significant differences in 3 of the 4 parameters (WC, WHiR and WHeR). Conclusions. These results may be useful to define strategies to combat overweight and obesity, considering the characteristics of this specific population.
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