CURRENT MEDICAL AND DRUG RESEARCH

Articles>> Volume 2 Issue 1, 2018

CURRENT MEDICAL AND DRUG RESEARCH
A clinical trial to establish the relationship between behavioural patterns and health status
Bodhini Lakshika Edirisinghe and K.C. Perera
Curr Med Drug Res 2 (1): Art. ID 183 (2018)
In the present time, bad lifestyle is a major cause of metabolic and heart-related disorders including stroke, obesity and diabetes. The present work aimed to establish the relationship between behavioural patterns and health status in human. A randomized clinical trial was conducted in Borella in which 50 patients were selected for the present study. All the patients were registered in the OPD of the Ayurvedic hospital, Borella. A questionnaire was used to collect information about the habits and health-related issues. The results suggested that there was no significant relationship of bad habits including cigarettes smoking, alcohol consumption and the day time sleeping with the body mass index (BMI). The study concluded that the intake of sweets and oily foods was positively related to increased BMI.

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