HUBUNGAN ASUPAN LEMAK DENGAN PERSENTASE LEMAK TUBUH PADA MAHASISWA PROGRAM STUDI PENDIDIKAN DOKTER FAKULTAS KEDOKTERAN UNIVERSITAS SRIWIJAYA
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- Background: Obesity is an excessive fat accumulation in the body, now the prevalence is increasing in the group of age >18 years based on Body Mass Index (BMI). Nowadays body fat percentage has been declared to assess risk factor of deaseaserelated body weight better than BMI, people with proportioned weight had excessive body fat percentage evenly. Excessive fat intake is one of the important factor for obesity. The objective of this study was to analyze the association between fat intake with body fat percentage. Methode: This study conducted with cross sectional deisgn on 275 medical faculty students of Sriwijaya University, starts from August until December 2017 by collecting primary data through completing form, food records, questionnaire, and physical examination. The result were analyzed statistically using chi-square. Result: 67.3% subjects had excessive body fat percentage and 50.2% with excessive fat intake. Results by chi-square test indicate negative association between fat intake with body fat percentage (p value=0.184). Conclusion: fat intake with body fat percentage were negatively associated