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Aim: The current study aims to determine the relationship between consumption of usual breakfast on anthropometric measurements for students of Erciyes University. Subjects and Methods: 269 volunteer female university students with 21.16±1.56 average age, attending ten different faculties and having nutritional education or not were recruited to the study. Data was collected between January and April in 2016 via questionnaire. Weight, height, waist, hip, and neck circumferences were measured. Shapiro-Wilk, histogram and Q-Q graphic was used to test normal distribution for quantitative variables and comparisons between groups were analyzed using t test. The relationship between regular breakfast consumption and anthropometric measurements was analyzed binary logistic regression. Results: 38.3% of students had nutritional education and 61.7% of students did not have nutritional education. The students who had nutritional education had significantly higher medians of weight, BMI, waist and neck circumferences than those who had not nutritional education (p<0.05). The frequency of breakfast consumption was 5.32±2.02. Percentages of regular breakfast consumption were 74.8% in the students who had nutritional education and 64.5% in the students who did not have nutritional education.According to the BMI classification, mildly obese students were found to be four times more likely to have an irregular breakfast than normal students(Oddsratio = 3. 967, p = 0.001 . Conclusions: Breakfast and its importance should be emphasized by the scope of nutritional education given to university students.

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