A Study of Obesity as a Sole Cause of Dyslipidaemia in Young Adults in a Rural Setup

Obesity is widely prevalent now-a-days.The prevalence is only going to increase with time.This has a deleterious effect on the body in the form that various diseases associated with obesity occur in the affected individuals.One of this is dyslipidaemia. AIMThis cross sectional study was done to know the occurrence of obesity as a sole cause for dyslipidaemia in young adults in a rural setup. MATERIALS AND METHODSIn this study, 610 patients were studied in a one-year period.Those patients with a BMI of >30 were included in the study.BMI was calculated, waist circumference was noted and findings of lipid profile were gathered.Obese patients with previous medical problems like diabetes mellitus, hypertension, thyroid disease, heart disease, etc. were excluded from the study.Obesity as a sole cause for dyslipidaemia was looked for in the patients by doing fasting lipid profile in the patients. RESULTSWe found that in obese patients with a BMI of >30, the waist circumference was high and these patients had derangements in the lipid profile where the TG were high in 407 (66.72%) patients, HDL was low in 416 (68.20%) patients and LDL was high in 423 (69.34%) patients.So, these patients of obesity had derangements in the fasting lipid profile. CONCLUSIONObesity is an important cause of dyslipidaemia.Lipid levels should be investigated in all the young obese patients as high lipid levels in these patients leads to various cardiovascular complications.Therefore, by checking the lipid profile in obese patients, we can prevent the cardiovascular complications from occurring in these patients.