Prevalence Of Obesity In Malaysia 2019

The worldwide prevalence of obesity nearly tripled between 1975 and 2016.

Prevalence of obesity in malaysia 2019. Malaysia has the highest rate of obesity and overweight among asian countries with 64 of male and 65 of female population being either obese or overweight. Original article 514 med j malaysia vol 74 no 6 december 2019 in malaysia ncds were estimated to account for 74 of all deaths in 2016 2 the prevalence of obesity increased from 4 4 in 1996 to 12 3 in 2004 10 11 the national health and morbidity surveys nhmss carried out in 2006 2011 and. The prevalence of overweight and obesity had increased 80 7 and 302 respectively in just under two decades. The prevalence in children below 18 years was not encouraging with 11 9 obese nhms.

Once considered a high income country problem overweight and obesity are now on the rise in low and middle income countries particularly in urban settings. 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. Farhan not his real name was taken to a private hospital by his parents to seek treatment for an infection on his right leg. In 2019 an estimated 38 2 million children under the age of 5 years were overweight or obese.

One of the consequences is that the prevalence of diabetes among adults aged 18 years and above has increased from 11 6 to 17 5 over a period of 9 years from 2006 to 2015. 2011 2015 2019 0 5 10 prevalence of diabetes by age groups have been diagnosed with diabetes did not know that they have diabetes 7 2 8 3 9 4 4 0 5 1 8 9 04 diabetes in malaysia 1 in 5 adults in malaysia have diabetes 3 9 million that s about people aged 18 years and above have been diagnosed with diabetes did not know that they have diabetes. According to the world population review 2019 malaysia has the highest prevalence of obesity among adults in south east asia at 15 6 per cent followed by brunei 14 1 per cent thailand 10 0 per cent and indonesia 6 9 per cent. Deputy health minister datuk seri dr hilmi yahaya recently said.