Study of Correlation of Life Style Patterns on Non Communicable Diseases in Urban Adolescents Area of Maharashtra (India)

Background: Adolescents are an investment for tomorrow's society. Their health and development through adolescence into adulthood will affect the future prosperity and stability of countries. Many times Adolescents health are a neglected and mistakenly been perceived as healthy. Fast growing economy, industrialisation and urbanisation has made lot of behavioural and lifestyle modification which are generally inculcated during adolescent period of life and continued same for rest of life. As a result of these changes NCDs are commonly seen since adolescent period of life. Material and methods: Cross-sectional study for duration of two years was carried out by Department of paediatrics in a tertiary care institute. Adolescents in the age group of 11-16 yrs of government and private schools were studied. Healthy and apparently asymptomatic were enrolled as study subjects. Adolescents suffering from endocrinal disorder, chronic diseases like cardiovascular, respiratory, musculoskeletal, renal disorders and whose parents not willing to get enrolled in the study were excluded. Anthropometric measures�weight, height, BMI, Waist& hip Circumference, WHR were performed. BP measurement was carried out. Results: More commonly found NCDs were overweight (19.41%), obesity (11.15%) and hypertension (9.4%). No major difference was found in government and private school adolescent. Almost 66.9% adolescents were having junk food, 74.3% have their meal in front of TV. Association between obesity, overweight and having meal in front of TV, high screen time, high use of mobile hours was statistically significant. Conclusion: lifestyle has huge impact on emerging NCDs among adolescent.