The Current Status of Adult Overweight and Obesity in Urban and Suburb areas of Tianjin / 中国慢性病预防与控制

ABSTRACT

Objective To describe the current status of adult overweight and obesity in urban and suburb areas of Tianjin.Methods 2 283 adult people including 1 131 from urban and 1 152 from suburb were selected by multi-stage cluster random sampling.The waist circumference,weight and height of the subjects were measured.Then the BMI was calculated.Results The mean BMI of adult people in Tianjin was 25.05?5.02 kg/m2,the overweight rate was 36.9%,the obesity rate was 20.0% and the abdominal obesity rate was 63.9%.The prevalent rates of overweight,obesity and abdominal obesity in different age groups showed significant differences.The rates of overweight,obesity and abdominal obesity increased with ages in urban area.The overweight rate in 40～49 yrs and the obesity rate in 50～59 yrs reached their peak values in suburb.Besides the overweight rate in urban was significantly higher,the obesity rate and abdominal obesity rate were no significant differences between urban and suburb.The prevalent rates of overweight,obesity and abdominal obesity showed no significant differences between the adult male and female in Tianjin,but the prevalent rates of obesity and abdominal obesity in female were significantly higher than those in male in the suburb.The prevalence of obesity in the middle-ages showed significant differences between different occupational population,the retired taking the highest while the workers taking the lowest value.The prevalence of obesity showed no significant differences between population with different education background and different income situation.Conclusion The rates of adult overweight and obesity in Tianjin were higher than those of all over the country in 2002,and the abdomen obesity reached to 63.9%.Intervention should be taken to change this situation as soon as possible.