Int J Physiother Res 2017;5(3):2035-38. ISSN 2321-1822 2035 Original Research Article STUDY OF BMI AND BODY FAT% IN ADOLESCENT BOYS Biswabara Rout 1 , Snigdha Prava Mishra 2 , Tapas Ranjan Behera * 3 . 1 Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, SCB Medical College, Cuttack, Odisha, India. 2 Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, MKCG Medical College, Berhampur, Odisha,India. *3 Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, SCB Medical College, Cuttack, Odisha, India. Background: The increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity has raised concerns regarding the importance of different techniques, which are used to assess body growth composition. There are many grave health risk of being overweight and obese. Recently childhood obesity has increased dramatically. BMI has been used for long to assess health and obesity. There are studies in India on prevalence of childhood obesity which are based on BMI. Very few studies have been conducted on school children of Odisha and none of them have taken body fat % in to consideration. Our study focuses on the prevalence of obesity in boys of adolescent age group of southern urban Odisha. Materials and Methods: In this cross sectional study we have selected the subjects randomly from different schools of Berhampur town, Odisha. Total number of subjects were 348. Anthropometric parameters & BF % were measured. Body fat % in different range of BMI was studied. Result: Out of 348 boys 38.5 % were having normal BMI, 54.02% less than normal & 7.47% have more than normal BMI. Out of total number of subjects, 176 (50.57%) have less than 20% BF, 172 (49.42%) have more than 20% BF. Conclusion: Almost half of the study group showed BF % more than normal. The excessive BF % observed among the children in this study and may have its impact on their health and fitness. KEY WORDS: School Children, Obesity, Overweight, BMI, BF %. ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION Address for correspondence: Dr Tapas Ranjan Behera, Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, SCB Medical College, Cuttack, Odisha, India. E-Mail: tapas4behera@gmail.com International Journal of Physiotherapy and Research, Int J Physiother Res 2017, Vol 5(3):2035-38. ISSN 2321-1822 DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.16965/ijpr.2017.134 Quick Response code Access this Article online International Journal of Physiotherapy and Research ISSN 2321- 1822 www.ijmhr.org/ijpr.html DOI: 10.16965/ijpr.2017.134 Received: 08-03-2017 Peer Review: 09-03-2017 Revised: None Accepted: 03-04-2017 Published (O): 20-05-2017 Published (P): 11-06-2017 Prevalence of childhood obesity has increased dramatically since 1990 [2]. A recently published analysis of 450 nationally representative cross sectional surveys from 144 countries showed that 43 million children (35 million in develop- ing countries) are estimated to be overweight and obese, while 92 million are at risk of overweight [3]. The grave health risk of being overweight include hypertension, hypercholes- terolemia, sleep disorder, gall bladder disease, The World Health Organization (WHO) describes overweight and obesity as today’s most impor- tant public health problem, which is escalating as a global pandemic. Obesity is a being long considered as a problem of developed countries, now it has increasingly recognized as a signifi- cant problem in developing countries, countries undergoing economic transition and is no more considered as a future tense for them [1].