Abstract
Objective: The current study was performed with an aim to determine the disease burden associated with underweight overweight, obesity class-1 and obesity class-2 individuals and to determine disease burden of hypertension, type 2-diabetes milletus, coronary heart disease, osteoarthritis, hypothyroidism, and other co-morbidities in abnormal weight individuals. Methodology: It was a comparative study carried for nine months from January 2014 to September 2014. The study was conducted in south India in selected districts of Telangana such as Hyderabad, Karimnagar, Khammam and Medak. The survey protocol included a home interview and a standardized physical examination in the subject’s home and personal interviews. Based on BMI, subjects were distributed into weight status categories according to NHLBI&WHO classification. Patients with various comorbidities were recorded and noted in different status categories. Results: A total 2600 population was enrolled in the study. In total population 1136 (43.69%) were healthy population and 1464 (56.30%) were disease population. In healthy population 84(70.00%), 751(69.52%), 236(33.90%), 226 (27.39%) were underweight, normal weight, overweight, obesity respectively. In disease population 36 (30.00%), 369 (38.48%), 460 (66.09%), 599(72.60%) were underweight, normal weight, overweight and obese respectively. Conclusion: Our study concludes that Disease burden has been elevated two folds with overweight and three folds with obesity in disease population as compared to healthy population overweight and obesity weight status categories. Disease burden is directly proportional to weight status i.e. with increasing body weight disease burden was found to be elevated in our study.