Noncommunicable disease risk factors among adolescent boys and girls in bangladesh: Evidence from a national survey

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Urmy, NJ
Hossain, MM
Shamim, AA
Khan, MSA
Hanif, AAM
Hasan, M
Akter, F
Mitra, DK
Hossaine, M
Ullah, MA
Sarker, SK
Rahman, SMM
Bulbul, MMI
Mridha, MK
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2021
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Objectives: To assess the prevalence of noncommunicable disease (NCD) risk factors and the factors associated with the coexistence of multiple risk factors (≥2 risk factors) among adolescent boys and girls in Bangladesh. Methods: Data on selected NCD risk factors collected from face to face interviews of 4,907 boys and 4,865 girls in the national Nutrition Surveillance round 2018-2019, was used. Descriptive analysis and multivariable logistic regression were performed. Results: The prevalence of insufficient fruit and vegetable intake, inadequate physical activity, tobacco use, and being overweight/obese was 90.72%, 29.03%, 4.57%, and 6.04%, respectively among boys; and 94.32%, 50.33%, 0.43%, and 8.03%, respectively among girls. Multiple risk factors were present among 34.87% of boys and 51.74% of girls. Younger age (p < 0.001), non-slum urban (p < 0.001) and slum residence (p < 0.001), higher paternal education (p = 0.001), and depression (p < 0.001) were associated with the coexistence of multiple risk factors in both boys and girls. Additionally, higher maternal education (p < 0.001) and richest wealth quintile (p = 0.023) were associated with the coexistence of multiple risk factors in girls. Conclusion: The government should integrate specific services into the existing health and non-health programs which are aimed at reducing the burden of NCD risk factors.

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Osong Public Health and Research Perspectives

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6

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© 2020 Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License, which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.

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Urmy, NJ; Hossain, MM; Shamim, AA; Khan, MSA; Hanif, AAM; Hasan, M; Akter, F; Mitra, DK; Hossaine, M; Ullah, MA; Sarker, SK; Rahman, SMM; Bulbul, MMI; Mridha, MK, Noncommunicable disease risk factors among adolescent boys and girls in bangladesh: Evidence from a national survey, Osong Public Health and Research Perspectives, 2021, 11 (6), pp. 351-364

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