THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REPRODUCTIVE FACTORS WITH A BODY MASS INDEX IN WOMEN

women's reproductive factors may be risk factors foe obesity in women. Since
few studies with conflicting results have examined that reproductive factors association with obesity,
present study aimed to determine the relationship between reproductive history (age at menarche, parity,
gravidity, breastfeeding duration, menopause age) with women's body mass index.
Materials & Methods: In this cross-sectional study of 240 of women who had eligible criteria and
referred to polyclinic of Imam Khomeini hospital in Urmia were selected in 2015. Data were collected
with a questionnaire and then weight and height of subjects were measured by BsBeure50 scale and
fixed wall height measuring, data were analyzed by software SPSS version 17 and statistical tests.
Results: This study showed that the mean ± SD of body mass index and age of women are
29.28 ± 5.53 kg / m 2 and 52.4 ± 12.4 years. 35.8% of samples were overweight and 44.6% were obese.
Parity (p=0.001, r=0.91) and gravidity (p=0.003,r=0.19) and body mass index were significantly positive
correlation, and other studied variable(age at menarche, duration of breast feeding, menopausal age)
with a body mass index were not significantly different(p>0.05).
Conclusions: This study showed that the high number of pregnancy are a risk factor for obesity so it
seems Planning health interventions for women during pregnancy and after delivery is essential to
reduce the incidence of obesity