Kolesterol HUBUNGAN INDEKS MASSA TUBUH (IMT) DENGAN KADAR KOLESTEROL TOTAL PADA MAHASISWA INSTITUT KESEHATAN RAJAWALI

Abstract

Background: Body mass index or BMI is a simple measurement to determine a person's nutritional status, there are several factors associated with high BMI, namely lack of physical activity that leads to a sedentary lifestyle. Cholesterol is a component of fat or lipid, cholesterol levels can increase in number due to food intake derived from animal fat, eggs and junk food. Research Objectives: To determine the relationship between BMI and total cholesterol levels in students of Rajawali Health Institute. Research Methods: This study uses correlational analytic with a cross-sectional study, the sampling technique used is purposive sampling, using the Shapiro-Wilk normality test and the Pearson correlation test. Research Results: The results of the analysis using the Pearson Correlation statistical test show that high BMI is not only influenced by cholesterol levels. One of them is caused by lipoprotein abnormalities and hereditary factors. Value of Sig. (2-tailed) of 0.783 > 0.05, then the relationship between these variables can be said to be insignificant or it can be interpreted that H0 is accepted. Conclusion : There is no relationship between body mass index and cholesterol levels in students of Rajawali Health Institute.