<![CDATA[Obesity occurs in adolescence at high risk of becoming obese in adulthood, excessive fataccumulation that occurred early on a risk factor for degenerative diseases in adulthood. Obesityin adolescents is influenced by genetic and environmental factors, with environmental factorsstrongly influence obesity is food intake in adolescents. Type of food chosen by teenagers todayare more inclined to the western pangaruh. This affects the food choices toward unhealthy foodwhich are foods high in fat, high in energy and low in fiber. Obesity is also associated withatherosclerotic lipid profile, such as increased LDL and triglycerides and increase HDL decrease.This study aims to determine whether there is any difference in levels of LDL and HDL cholesterolin junior high school students were obese in Rural and Urban areas.This research was observational analytic with cross sectional study design. The number ofsamples is 40 samples were taken using a sample selection techniques to determine the samplesize based on certain considerations or using purposive sampling technique. Data were analyzedusing (1) test for normality with the Kolmogorov-Smirnov and (2) unpaired t test.Results: In this research, the subject of study as many as 40 samples of students were obeseconsisting of 20 samples in SMPN 1 Kawangkoan and 20 samples in SMPN 1 Manado. Results ofstatistical analysis of data showed that the average HDL cholesterol levels in obese student atSMPN 1 Kawangkoan (47.50 mg / dl) and (47.60 mg / dl) in SMPN 1 Manado and average LDLcholesterol levels in obese students SMPN 1 Kawangkoan (127.00 mg / dl) and at SMPN 1Manado (125.95) with a p-value of 0.05 can be concluded that there is no difference between LDLand HDL cholesterol levels in obese students in the area of Rural and Urban.]]>
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