Nutritional status of students in the city of Dushanbe
https://doi.org/10.52888/0514-2515-2022-354-3-60-65
Abstract
Aim. To study the nutritional status of students of higher educational institutions in Dushanbe.
Materials and methods. The study focuses on the nutritional status of 498 university students aged 18-29 living in Dushanbe in 2022. Among those examined were 246 male students (49.4%) and 252 female students (50.6%). Statistical analysis of the collected data was conducted using the computer program Tj_AssNut. The program automatically determined the body mass index, protein-energy deficiency, and the degree of obesity.
Results and discussion. The results show that 6.22% of the examined individuals had a BMI <18.5, indicating the presence of protein-energy deficiency. The rate of normal nutritional status in the surveyed populations was 78.92%. 10.24% of the respondents are overweight, and 4.62% (5.16% women and 4.07% men) are obese.
Conclusions. The study of the nutritional status of students of educational institutions of Dushanbe shows that among all the students examined 6.22% have protein-energy deficiencies, 78.92% are in normal nutritional status, 10.24% have increased body weight and 4.62% are obese.
About the Authors
H. S. Khayrov
Avicenna Tajik State Medical University
Tajikistan
Tajikistan
Department of Environmental Hygiene
O. B. Raҳmonaliev
Avicenna Tajik State Medical University
Tajikistan
Tajikistan
Rakhmonaliev O.B. - postgraduate student at the Environmental Hygiene Department
Tel: +992985108272
References
1. VOZ. Globalnaya strategiya po pitaniyu, fizicheskoy aktivnosti i zdorovyu [A Global Strategy for Nutrition, Physical Activity and Health]. WHO Publ., 2004. 21 p.
2. VOZ. Evropeyskaya ministerskaya konferentsiya VOZ po borbe s ozhireniem Otchet o rabote konferentsii [WHO European Ministerial Conference on Counteracting Obesity Conference Report]. Daniya, 2006. 42 p.
3. Ivleeva A.Yu. Izbytochnyy ves i ozhirenie - problema meditsinskaya, a ne kosmeticheskaya [Overweight and obesity are a medical problem, not a cosmetic one]. Ozhirenie i metabolizm - Obesity and metabolism, 2010, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 15-19.
4. Kazakhskaya akademiya pitaniya. Issledovanie, po otsenke statusa pitaniya i zdorovya naseleniya Kazakhstana [Study to assess the nutritional and health status of the population of Kazakhstan]. Almaty, 2014. 296 p.
5. Leskova I.V. Ozhirenie v Rossii: sovremennyy vzglyad pod uglom sotsialnykh problem [Obesity in Russia: A Modern View from the Societal Perspective]. Ozhirenie i metabolizm - Obesity and metabolism, 2019, No. 6 (1), pp. 20-26.
6. Nedostatochnost pitaniya v praktike pediatra: differentsialnaya diagnostika i vozmozhnosti nutritivnoy podderzhki [Malnutrition in pediatric practice: differential diagnosis and options for nutritional support]. Meditsinskiy sovet - Medical consilium, 2019, No. 2, pp. 200-208.
7. «Programma profilaktiki ozhireniya i formirovaniya zdorovogo pitaniya v Respublike Tadzhikistan na 2019-2024 gody». Postanovlenie Pravitelstva Respubliki Tadzhikistan ot 2 oktyabrya, № 463 [“Obesity Prevention and Healthy Nutrition Program in the Republic of Tajikistan for 2019-2024”. Decree of the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan, October 2, № 463]. 2019.
8. «Strategiya po pitaniyu i fizicheskoy aktivnosti v Respublike Tadzhikistan na 2015-2024 gody”, utverzhdennoy postanovleniem Pravitelstva Respubliki Tadzhikistan ot 31 dekabrya 2014 goda, № 808 [“Strategy for Nutrition and Physical Activity in the Republic of Tajikistan for 2015-2024,” approved by Decree No. 808 of the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan, December 31, 2014].
9. Khayrov Kh.S. “Peshgirii vazni ziyodi badan va tabobati bemorii farbeҳӣ tavassuti ғizo (dasturimetodӣ)” [“Prevention of Overweight and Treatment of Obesity through Nutrition (Methodological Guide)]. Dushanbe, 2020, -100s.
10. Khayrov Kh.S. Gigiena pitaniya [Food hygiene]. Dushanbe, DDTT imeni Abuali ibni Sino Publ., 2022. 626 p.
11. Khayrov Kh.S. Lechebnoe pitanie [Therapeutic nutrition]. Dushanbe, Kontrast Publ., 2018. 573 p.
12. Tazhibaev Sh.S. Zdorovoe pitanie – osnova profilaktiki izbytochnoy massy tela i ozhireniya (Modul 1) [Healthy Nutrition as the Basis for Preventing Overweight and Obesity (Module 1)]. Almaty, Kazakhskaya Akademiya pitaniya Publ., 2012. 32 p.
Review
For citations:
Khayrov H.S., Raҳmonaliev O.B. Nutritional status of students in the city of Dushanbe. Health care of Tajikistan. 2022;(3):60-65. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.52888/0514-2515-2022-354-3-60-65
Views:
326
Email this article 