Pakistan Journal of Nutrition1680-51941994-7984Asian Network for Scientific Information10.3923/pjn.2016.618.624DoustjalaliSaeid Reza GujjarKumar Raghav SharmaRatika NurfatihaM. FirzanahR. Nur SyukriM.K. Muhamad NapatrW.A. SyahirahT.K.Z. Nurul JashamyKarim Al- IrfanMohammed SersiMagdi El- ZinKhin Thant LinnNyan Htain LinWai Ma AppalanaiduVinothini KadirSamiah Yasmin Abdul MohamadRohaini ChinWong Ah- YusufAhmad WongS.Y. Rebecca KumarasamyVinoth NadankuttyJeyaseelan SuhaimiS.F. Nazrila DarHlaing Thaw HtweMyo Nandar NazmulM.H.M. KhalafAhmad Taha HtetHtet YongSaw Ai BhuiyanMunira ChristinalP.W.T. DubaiSami Abdo Radman Al- FernandezFidel MuftahA.E. MirhasheminasabSeyyed Amirhossein MansorMarzalina SabetNegar Shafiei 72016157Body mass index (BMI) is a common, inexpensive and simple method to categorize individuals as underweight, normal weight, overweight, obese I and obese II. However, this method does not reflect body shape and fat distribution. Waist to hip ratio (WHR) is a more recent and accurate method to measure body fat distribution and can be used routinely. The purpose of this study was to compare BMI and WHR of Malaysian undergraduate medical students. The weight, height, waist line and hip line of 82 undergraduate medical students studying at SEGi University, Malaysia were measured and used to calculate BMI and WHR using the standard formula. For males, the highest mean BMI was recorded for Indian students followed by those for Malay and Chinese. However, for males, the highest mean WHR was recorded for Malay followed by those for Chinese and Indian. For females, both mean BMI and WHR were highest for Malay, followed by those for Indian and Chinese. No correlation was found between BMI and WHR among the overall and male participants respectively. However significant correlation was present between BMI and WHR among female participants (r value = 0.623). In conclusion, in this research, there was correlation between BMI and WHR in female population. Therefore the Malaysian females, specially Malay females should be more aware of their health, their food intake and they should take better care of their health, do more physical activity in order to have healthier life and get less exposed to diseases caused by high BMI and WHR.]]>Abdullah, A., R. Wolfe, J.U. Stoelwinder, M. de Courten, C. Stevenson, H.L. Walls and A. Peeters,201140985996Romero-Corral, A., V.K. Somers, J. Sierra-Johnson, M.D. Jensen and R.J. Thomas et al.,20072820872093Romero-Corral, A., V.K. Somers, J. Sierra-Johnson, R.J. Thomas and M.L. Collazo-Clavell et al.,200832959966Abolfotouh, M.A., F.A. Bassiouni, G.M. Mounir and R.C. Fayyad,200713376391CDC.,200934183194Ashwell, M.,2009234954Azmi, M.Y., R. Junidah, A.S. Mariam, M.Y. Safiah and S. Fatimah et al.,20091597119Bakr, E.M., N.A. Ismail and H.M. Mahaba,2002772949Brown, P.,20093259261Chan, D.C., G.F. Watts, P.H.R. Barrett and V. Burke,200396441447Cheong, K.C., A.F. Yusoff, S.M. Ghazali, K.H. Lim and S. Selvarajah et al.,201216453459Cockcroft, A., C. Gooch, C. Ellinghouse, M. Johnston and S. Michie,1994447076Dagan, S.S., S. Segev, I. Novikov and R. Dankner,20132013Gahagan, S., R.M. Kliegman, R.E. Behrman, H.B. Jenson and B.F. Stanton,20112011Ayala, G.X., J.P. Elder, N.R. Campbell, D.J. Slymen, N. Roy, M. Engelberg and T. Ganiats,200414155164Hu, F.B.,20082008pp: 55-56pp: 55-56Wee, H.L., Y.B. Cheung, W.C. Loke, C.B. Tan and M.H. Chow et al.,200811S105S114IBM.,2012Kelly, E.B.,2006Pages: 224Pages: 224De Koning, L., A.T. Merchant, J. Pogue and S.S. Anand,200728850856Leung, Y.Y., J.C. Allen, M. Noviani, L.W. Ang, R. Wang, J.M. Yuan and W.P. Koh,2015234147Gierach, M., J. Gierach, M. Ewertowska, A. Arndt and R. Junik,20142014Thoma, M.E., M.L. Hediger, R. Sundaram, J.B. Stanford and C.M. Peterson et al.,20122110741081Martinez, J.A.,200059337345Norafidah, A.R., M.N. Azmawati and A. Norfazilah,2013133747Huda, N. and R. Ahmad,20109125127Odenigbo, U.M., U.C. Odenigbo, O.C. Oguejiofor and P.O.U. Adogu,2011101518Ofei, F.,20053998101Per, B.,2001Rising, R., I.T. Harper, A.M. Fontvielle, R.T. Ferraro, M. Spraul and E. Ravussin,199459800804Rosmond, R., M. Chagnon, C. Bouchard and P. Bjorntorp,20018621782180Gupta, S., T.G. Ray and I. Saha,200934255257