Effect of sex/gender on obesity traits in Canadian first year university students: The GENEiUS study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While weight gain during first year of university has been well documented in North America, literature on sex-specific effects is scarce and inconsistent. The objective of this investigation was to explore sex-specific changes in obesity traits during first year of university at McMaster University (Ontario, Canada).

Methods

245 first-year students (80.4% females) were followed longitudinally with data collected early in the academic year and towards the end of the year. Obesity parameters including weight, waist and hip circumferences, BMI, and waist to hip ratio were investigated. The Mann-Whitney U test and the Wilcoxon signed-rank test were used for pairwise comparison of traits in the absence of adjustments. Additionally, the repeated-measures ANOVA test was

SUBMITTER: Sharma T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7886219 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature