Avalon University - Modern Lifestyle of North American and Antillean Students

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Avalon University School of Medicine
By Avalon University School of Medicines
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Modern Lifestyle of North American and Antillean
Students

• We are pleased to inform you that Avalon
  University School of Medicine, Curacao is
  conducting a research project in collaboration
  with the Psychology department of the University
  of Alberta, Canada. The topic is about the
  Modern Lifestyle of North American and Antillean
  students.
• The focus of the project is to highlight the rate
  and dangers of obesity amongst the student
  population, and how obesity affects the health.
• There are many diseases and health related issues
  that are related to obesity such as
  cardiovascular diseases, strokes, high blood
  pressure, diabetes, cancer, osteoarthritis,
  sleeping problems (e.g. sleep apnea), etc. It is
  imperative to observe the student population in
  terms of obesity in order to provide adequate
  preventive measures for the diseases and health
  issues mentioned above.

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Modern Lifestyle of North American and Antillean
Students

• The knowledge of population differences in
  dietary lifestyles in relation to obesity would
  greatly contribute to current public health
  improvement initiatives as well as for future
  studies.

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Modern Lifestyle of North American and Antillean
Students
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Modern Lifestyle of North American and Antillean
Students

• Curaçao is an unique place in this world, and the
  universities in Curaçao have students from the
  neighboring islands such as Bonaire, Aruba and
  the other Antillean islands whom are in pursuit
  of a college degree.
• This was beneficial in this research project for
  the reason of having a large Antillean population
  as participants. Likewise, the University of
  Alberta is one of the largest schools in Canada
  that provides an education for students across
  all of Canada, thus representing the Canadian
  population for this research project. Criteria
  for resident of each country will be defined as
  a person who has lived in the country for a
  minimum of 5 years.

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Modern Lifestyle of North American and Antillean
Students

• The objective is to measure Body Mass Index
  (BMI), Waist-Hip Ratio (WHR) and waist
  circumference (WC) as an indicator of the
  population risk of developing cardiovascular
  diseases.
• According to World Health Organization (WHO), the
  normal range of BMI is 18.5-24.9, overweight is
  25-29.9 and obese is above 30 WHR of 0.7-0.8 for
  women and 0.9-1.0 for men is considered optimal
  and finally, males with WC of 94cm or more and
  females with 80cm or more are considered to be at
  higher risk of developing obesity-related health
  problems such as the ones mentioned above.

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Modern Lifestyle of North American and Antillean
Students

• Collaboration details
• Avalon has been in contact with one of the
  research professors in University of Alberta
  (Psychology department) and he has agreed to work
  together with us in this study.Avalon will show
  priority in discipline. Nothing is more
  important than a well-crafted and
  well-articulated discipline policy.

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Modern Lifestyle of North American and Antillean
Students

• Materials and Methods
• Two populations will be compared in this study,
  the Canadian and the Antillean population. The
  variables will be compared to find a correlation
  i.e. does having a high BMI mean having a high
  WHR or WC. Also, it would be useful to find out
  if WC alone can be a good predictor of obesity as
  opposed to WHR.
• The differences between each population will be
  measured and a conclusion will be made concerning
  the percentage of the population that is at risk
  of developing CVD as measured through BMI, WHR
  and WC for both populations. However, since we
  are not considering other factors that could
  contribute to the CVD risk, we will not be able
  to make any causal relationships in this study.
  School of Medicine

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Modern Lifestyle of North American and Antillean
Students

• The participant pool will consist of students of
  educational institutions in both locations i.e.
  universities on the Island of Curacao and
  University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. These
  populations will serve as an sample population
  representative of the Antillean and Canadian
  populations.
• Based on the participant pool, our study will
  only show data for ages 17 and over we have
  decided to make this representative of the
  average student population. School of Medicine

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Modern Lifestyle of North American and Antillean
Students

• BMI will be measured by dividing the weight by
  the height measurements, WHR will be calculated
  by dividing the waist circumference by the hip
  circumference, measured with the use of a
  measuring tape.

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Avalon University School of Medicine
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