Psychiatric Co-morbidities and Body Shape Dissatisfaction in Adolescents with Obesity - A School Based Case Controlled Study.

Objective: To compare the psychiatric co-morbidity and Body image disturbances of obese adolescents with age and gender matched normal weight controls.

Methods: A case control study was conducted in a school in New Delhi. Nine hundred seventy six students were screened for height and weight and body mass index (BMI) was calculated.