Prevalence of Obesity Among the Musculoskeletal Patient's Attending at the Musculoskeletal Department at CRP

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to identify the prevalence of obesity among the musculoskeletal patient’s attending at the musculoskeletal department of CRP. Objectives: To find out the socio-demographic information among the patient’s attending at musculoskeletal department of CRP, to establish the prevalence of obesity by age and sex, todetermine the main musculoskeletal disorder among the obese participants, to sort out other musculoskeletal disorder except for the main musculoskeletal disorder among the obese and to explore the distribution of hypertensionand diabetes among the obeseparticipants.Methodology: A cross sectional survey study was conducted to collect data from 162 participants, age ranging from 18-75 years. Data were numerically coded and captured in Microsoft Excel, using an SPSS 16.0 version software program. Result: Prevalence of obesity was 12.30%, with 55% were = 50 years old and 45% were < 50 years old, 60% of whom were females and 40% were males. 20 were obese who complained at least one musculoskeletal problem. Among them osteoarthritis of the knee (10, 50%) was the most common musculoskeletal disorder followed by low back pain (7, 35%), ankle sprain, neck pain and calcaneal spur (1, 5%). Half of the obese (10, 50%) participants suffered from more than one musculoskeletal problems. Among the musculoskeletal problems,low back pain (3, 15%) was the most common followed by OA of the knee, ankle sprain and neck pain (2, 10%) and frozen shoulder (1, 5%). Most of the obese sheared that they had no hypertension (13, 65%) and diabetes (17, 85%) where rest of the patients suffered with hypertension (7, 35%) and diabetes (3, 15%). Conclusion: Prevalence of obesity is rapidly increasing day by day in the world. Now-a-days obesity is the issue of burning question. It is essential to identify the actual prevalence of obesity among musculoskeletal patients by taking mass population in all over the Bangladesh.