The aim of this paper was to observe the influencing socioeconomic variables in enhancing the obesity and heart disease simultaneously among Bangladeshi adults of 18 years and above. The adults were interviewed from different urban and semi-urban diagnostic clinics by some nurses with the help of medical assistants working in the clinics when the adults were visiting the clinics for suggested blood test. The number of investigated adults was 995, out of which 51.1% were males. The percentage of obese adults was 30.2 and heart problem was prevailed among 21.7% of them. These latter groups of adults were classified by levels of different socioeconomic variables to observe the association of the variables with the prevalence of obesity-heart disease. The risk ratio for this prevalence for a particular level of socioeconomic variable was calculated along with confidence interval of risk ratio. The influencing variable for the prevalence of obesity-heart problem was detected by logistic regression analysis. The responsible variables were residence, gender, age, family income, smoking habit, sedentary activities and blood pressure. However, non-involvement in physical labour, habit of taking process food and family expenditure were significantly associated with prevalence of obesity-heart disease. The higher risk of prevalence of obesity –heart disease was noted among urban residents, housewives, adults of ages 40-60 years, smokers, process food consumers and among hypertensive adults.

Obesity, Heart disease, Responsible variable for obesity-heart problem, Risk ratio, Logistic regression