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Objective To investigate the association between healthy literacy and body weight of adolescent. Methods A total of 6 812 adolescents accepting physical examination at the physical examination center of our hospital from Jan. 2013 to Oct. 2016 were selected as the study subjects. The information such as sex,self-rated health status and health behaviors of participants was collected,the participants were classified according to BMI(underweight, normal, overweight, obesity), furthermore all participants conducted the adolescent health literacy test,and the multivariable Logistic regression analysis was conducted to explore the association between adolescent health literacy and body weight by adjusting relevant concomitant variables. Results For 6 812 participants, the mean BMI was (18.73±3.82) kg/m2 , and the average score of health literacy test was (25.01 ± 6.08) points ; compared to the adolescents with health literacy test score <21 points(17. 3% obesity), those with health literacy test scores >30 points,the ones (12.4% obesity) were less likely to be obese;after controlling for the concomitant variables like self-rated health status, health behaviors, the adolescents with health literacy test scores over 30 had the lower possibility of body mass deficiency (RR=0.82 ,P<0.05) ,overweight (RR=0.81 ,P<0.05) or obesity (RR=0.93 ,P<0.05) ;in addition,the adolescents with irregular physical activities and drinking sugared beverages were more likely to be overweight or obesity. Conclusion Health literacy is closely linked with adolescent overweight or obesity,in order to avoid the health problems of the teenagers caused by obesity,it is suggested to strengthen the adolescent health literacy education.
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Objective:To investigate the health condition of the staff in one state-owned enterprise of Chongqing.Methods:A staff of 3216 in one state-owned enterprise in Chongqing city received physical examination.The routine test departments involved in the investigation included the department of internal medicine,surgery,ENT,stomatology and gynecology,and the routine items included blood routine test,liver function(such as serum total protein,albumin,serum total bilirubin,ALT and AST),renal function(blood urea nitrogen,creatine and uric acid),blood glucose,serum lipid test(such as total cholesterol,triglyceride,low density lipoprotein and high density lipoprotein),type B hepatitis virus marker,cancer embryo antigen(CEA),electrocardiogram,examination of these organs including liver,gallbladder,pancreas,spleen and kidney by type B ultrasonography and chest X-ray examination.Results:A total of 2855 cases of 3216 examined persons(88.77%) had different degree of health problems.The top three diseases in the investigation were hypertension(36.23%),hyperlipemia(33.49%)and fatty liver(19.87%).The occurrance of these diseases in males was higher than that in females(P