Prevalence Of Obesity In Malaysia 2018

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Prevalence of obesity in malaysia 2018. A crude population measure of obesity is the body mass index bmi a person s weight in. Despite the high prevalence of obesity which is a core risk factor for the development of chronic. To the best of our knowledge this is the first report in malaysia reporting that this is very first obesity dna bank in south east asia region and prevalence of obesity in terengganu malaysia to be 27 9. Overweight and obesity are defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that presents a risk to health.

The prevalence of overweight and obesity had increased 80 7 and 302 respectively in just under two decades. A recent study estimates that worldwide gdp losses both from direct and indirect costs of diabetes from 2011 to 2030 will total us 1 7tril comprising us 900bil for high income countries and us 800bil for low and middle. Between 1997 and 2016 male obesity prevalence of malaysia grew substantially from 3 8 to 13 rising at an increasing annual rate that reached a maximum of 9 09 in 2000 and then decreased to 5 69 in 2016. Malaysia is recorded as the highest number of obese rates in the south east asia with prevalence of obesity was at 13 3 per cent while overweight was at 38 5 per cent farezza hanum rashid 2017.

Three studies were included 1 a summary of a national health morbidity survey conducted in 1996 on nearly 29 000 adults or 20 years of age. Above national average states smoking alcoholism obesity c obesity a chol exercise malaysia 22 2 12 8 7 2 17 7 47 7 66 5 johor 22 2 13 8 4 6 18 1 45 8 67 1 kedah 26 5 6 6 6 9 20 5 53 5 66 4 kelantan 24 6 0 4 2 9 16 2 51 7 74 2. The prevalence in children below 18 years was not encouraging with 11 9 obese nhms. In 2016 female obesity prevalence for malaysia was 17 9.

Malaysia national average. The difference of mean of bmi whr fat and asindex was calculated to be 10 73 0 1 9 3 and 6 89 respectively. In malaysia the prevalence of obesity was 17 7 percent in the year 2015 almost double compared to the figures in the last two decades5. As shown in figure 4 malaysia s total cost for obesity as a percentage of nominal gdp ranks top at a range between 0 4 and 0 8 far ahead of all other countries in asean.

Overweight and obesity are defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that presents a risk to health. Prevalence of risk factors in 2015 key. Female obesity prevalence of malaysia increased from 7 9 in 1997 to 17 9 in 2016 growing at an average annual rate of 4 40. Below national average.

Prevalence rate in south east asia with only 2 2 percent.