SEVERAL DIMENSIONS, ANTHROPOMETRIC INDICES AND NUTRITIONAL CONDITION OF FRESHMEN IN HANOI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY, YEAR 2019-2020

Abstract

Our aim is to describe the morphology, physical and nutritional status of Vietnamese medical students in the late years of second decade of the 21^th Centery. A research about physical form included 861 freshmen (335 male, 526 female) from Hanoi Medical University (2019 - 2020): Male students’ physical form measurement and figures are much better than female students’ and these indices is largely better than the previous studies of other authors. Physical form seems to increase by the time, after 45 years: male was 9.5 cm higher and 15.9 kg heavier, female was 7.0 cm higher and 5.8 kg heavier. In comparison with students in 2007, male students were8.5 kgs heavier and female students were 3.9 kgs heavier. In comparison with a research ten years ago, the height of male and female increased 4.2 cm and 3.3 cm, respectively. According to an Asian - Pacific population classification, students from Hanoi Medical University had medium weight.