Overweight BMI With and Without Regular Exercise in Secondary School Students in Tikrit City

Background: Currently, obesity affects almost a third of the world’s population. Traditionally, anthropometric measures such as waist circumference or body mass index (BMI) were used to quantify total obesity. Aim of this Study to estimation the relation between Overweight BMI with and without regular exercise among secondary school students in Tikrit City. Patients and methods:cross-sectional descriptive epidemiological study was carried out to estimate the relation between Overweight BMI with and without regular exercise in secondary school students in Tikrit city among 153 students (80 girls and 73 boys) and study the lelationshipe between them. Results: In current study, male who doing exercise 1-2 times weekly 44.83% less than non-doing as percentage 55.17% ,so 11/23(47.83%) from female do exercise 1-2 times weekly, while in male 13/29(44.83%) do exercise 1-2 times weekly. as well as 8/23(34.78%) from female do exercise 3-4 times weekly, while 9/29(30.03%) in male do exercise regularly. In male 7/29(24.14%) do exercise more than 4 times weekly, while 4/23(17.39%) from female do exercise more than 4 times weekly.and female 16/23(69.57%) do exercise for 0-30 mins, while in male 15/29(51.72%) do exercise for 0-30 mins. also 6/29(20.69%) in male do exercise for 30-60 mins, In male 8/29(27.59%) do exercise for more than 60 mins, also 16/49(32.66%) had a overweight BMI and 22/49(44.9%) had a central obesity. Conclusion: Most of the students have a normal BMI and a normal waist-to-height ratio and among secondary school students (34%) only have regular exercise, from them (46.15%) doing exercise 1-2 times weekly.