Pakistan ranks 9th most obese country in world

Pakistan is 9th most obese country in the world while 2.1 billion or nearly 30 percent world's population is obese or overweight. Globally 88% of women who had high blood glucose during pregnancy were from low and middle income countries. 21 million women or 16.2% of live births have some form of hyper glycaemia in pregnancy. These disclosures were made by speakers in a symposium hosted by Ziauddin University.
"There is a big distinction between obesity of western citizens and the people in our region. West's obesity is limited to upper parts of the body like shoulders while in Pakistan we face mostly abdominal obesity, reason is the difference of diet and the living style." Dr Farid Zafar, President, Society of Gynae & Obs Pakistan (SOGP) said this while addressing as Chief Guest to the "5th International Symposium on Gynaecology and Fetomaternal Medicine" hosted by Ziauddin University, in collaboration with Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
Dr Farid Zafar said, "We have to evolve our own guidelines and carry out study on the rate of mortality in Pakistan. In Karachi and Lahore our rate of mortality are less than Larkana and other cities of rural areas not due to the doctors but living style of the people. There is a variation between research personnel and the people operating in hospitals, he added.
The other speakers on the occasion included Professor Rubina Hussain, Dr Tasneem Asalm Tariq, Dr Sumbul Sohail, Dr Samrina Hashmi, and Professor Fouzia Perveen.-PR