A study of body mass index (BMI) of Nepalese women attending gynaecology clinic

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This prospective study was carried out to find out the body mass index (BMI) of all the women attending a gynaecological clinic at Kathmandu Valley. Total of 1450 women attended this clinic over the study period. After excluding few hundreds of women, one thousand women of reproductive age (15-49) were enrolled. Detail history was taken, general, systemic and pelvic examinations were performed and a provisional diagnosis was made on the clinical ground. In this process height and weight of each patient was measured then Body Mass Index (BMI) was calculated. Eight percent (8%) of women were underweight and equal numbers of them were obese too. Forty-four point six percent were healthy and 37.3 were overweight. Most of them were diagnosed vaginitis, urinary tract infection (UTI), pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), subfertility, menstrual disorders, and cervical conditions. In eleven percent no gynaecological abnormalities were detected (NAD). Commonly diagnosed conditions were vaginitis, UTI, PID, primary subfertility and menstrual distorders were the commonly diagnosed conditions.

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Padhye, S. M. (2007). A study of body mass index (BMI) of Nepalese women attending gynaecology clinic. Journal of the Nepal Medical Association, 46(168), 185–188. https://doi.org/10.31729/jnma.265

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